Abstract
The article presents the results of the analysis of the problem of creativity and creative work in children with disabilities having different impairments. This research serves as a basis for conducting a separate study aimed at researching the peculiarities of the search for creative solutions in the process of completing figure drawings in younger schoolchildren with hearing impairments compared to their peers with normal hearing. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of the drawings of hearing-impaired students and elementary school students with preserved hearing was conducted by the criteria of fluency, flexibility, elaborateness, and originality. The need for the present study is determined by the tasks of the modern system of special and inclusive education aimed at the optimal personal development of all children and the creation of psychological and pedagogical conditions for the successful development of different types of creative activity that positively affect their socialization. The study uses a set of theoretical and empirical methods of analysis of the studied problem, as well as a comparative study of general and specific features of creativity in children with preserved and impaired hearing. These specific features are determined by a disproportionate formation of different types of thinking, a delay in the development of figurative memory, verbal speech, and imagination in comparison with hearing children. The novelty of the study consists in the expansion of knowledge about the potential possibilities of creative decisions and creative abilities of persons with developmental disorders at different ages in special psychology and pedagogics. The results of the study of creativity of children with hearing impairments can be used in the educational system for professional orientation and creating conditions for persons with special educational needs to master creative professions.
Highlights
The study of creativity and creative work of children with disabilities is to some extent a challenge despite the increased tolerance of society and the inclusion of these children and adolescents in the modern educational and socio-cultural space since the level of expectations for the creative achievements of this group of students had been low for a long time.A small number of works related to different aspects of creativity of disabled children have been published in recent years [1,2,3,4]
A noteworthy observation is a wide variation in the results of children with hearing impairments from good to very low values
The peculiarities of thinking and less enriched, various, and generalized life experience prevent children with hearing impairments from abstracting and shifting from one test figure to another, they duplicate the same elements and ideas most often reproducing familiar objects of the surrounding world
Summary
The study of creativity and creative work of children with disabilities is to some extent a challenge despite the increased tolerance of society and the inclusion of these children and adolescents in the modern educational and socio-cultural space since the level of expectations for the creative achievements of this group of students had been low for a long time.A small number of works related to different aspects of creativity of disabled children have been published in recent years [1,2,3,4]. Despite the opinion expressed by L.S. Vygotsky about the creative abilities of children with disabilities, for example, in the practical sphere (as the ability to purposefully use tools), scientists remain cautious when characterizing their creativity [8]. Vygotsky about the creative abilities of children with disabilities, for example, in the practical sphere (as the ability to purposefully use tools), scientists remain cautious when characterizing their creativity [8] Evidence of such creativity comes from the “creative products” of young and adult people with various disabilities. This is supported by the project “Neprikosaemye” [“Unchurched”] promoting paintings of artists with intellectual disabilities, the project “Naivno? This is supported by the project “Neprikosaemye” [“Unchurched”] promoting paintings of artists with intellectual disabilities, the project “Naivno? Ochen” [“Naive? Very”], the art studio “Perspektiva” [“Perspective”], the “Teatr Prostodushnykh” [“Theater of the Simple-minded”] where young people with Down syndrome engage in performances, in the “Nedoslov” Theaters of Mimics and Gestures where people with hearing disabilities realize their creative abilities, and in the project “Inklusion” involving deafblind people
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