ОСОБЛИВОСТІ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ ДІТЕЙ МОЛОДШОГО ДОШКІЛЬНОГО ВІКУ ІЗ ЗАГАЛЬНИМ НЕДОРОЗВИТКОМ МОВЛЕННЯ

Abstract

The development of Ukraine and its integration into the European space have a significant impact on the educational policy and practice of our state. This especially applies to ensuring the right of children with special educational needs to study. Therefore, one of the priority directions of the development of the national education system is the search for effective ways of including children with special educational needs in the educational environment, ensuring their socialization and social integration. Insufficient attention is paid to finding effective ways to include preschool children with special educational needs in an inclusive educational environment to ensure their socialization and social integration. Taking into account the fact that the preschool education institution is the first link of education in Ukraine, within which the socialization of the child is carried out, it is important to understand the peculiarities of the social integration of the preschooler in the general educational space and to apply scientifically based, effective and age-appropriate means of social integration to ensure it. The article analyzes general and special psychological and pedagogical literature on the concept of "social integration"; the essence of the process of social integration of children of younger preschool age with general underdevelopment of speech is determined. The criteria and indicators of social integration of children of younger preschool age are substantiated, the methodology of researching the level of social integration of children of the specified age group is described, the features of social integration of children of younger preschool age with general underdevelopment of speech are outlined on the basis of a qualitative analysis of the results of a diagnostic study regarding each of the competencies of children of younger preschool age, and also compared the level of social integration of children of younger preschool age with typical development with the level of social integration of children of younger preschool age with general underdevelopment of speech.