Abstract
The underdeveloped conscious self-regulation of actions plays a primary role in the disorder-related character of children with developmental delay (DD). This study aimed to analyze and systematize specific occurrences of conscious self-regulation in children’s DD-affected cognitive activity. Children aged 7–8 years were involved in the study (n = 60), including children with DD (n = 40) and school children displaying typical development (n = 20). The dotting test, visual pattern test, and Toulouse–Pieron attention test are the practical methods used in the study. Mathematical methods of statistics were applied to analyze the study outcome. The experimental research identified and described four levels of conscious self-regulation development in the cognitive activity of children with different learning capacities. The findings proved that children of 7–8 years with DD have an underdeveloped level of conscious self-regulation of actions in terms of their cognitive activity, and that they differ from their peers regarding typical development in terms of their conscious self-regulation level and skills. Special intervention programs that develop conscious self-regulation in the performance and behavior of children with DD are required to realize their cognitive and personal capacities and provide them with high-quality education.
Highlights
IntroductionAccording to the holistic conceptual framework of Konopkin O.A. [1], the conscious self-regulation of actions is a system-like mental process of the initiation, development, and self-management of one’s conscious goal-guided activity, and it has certain types and forms.Research into the common patterns of conscious self-regulation has understandably led to studies on its characteristic peculiarities (varying among different groups of children) and its specific occurrences in different types of activities
According to the holistic conceptual framework of Konopkin O.A. [1], the conscious self-regulation of actions is a system-like mental process of the initiation, development, and self-management of one’s conscious goal-guided activity, and it has certain types and forms.Research into the common patterns of conscious self-regulation has understandably led to studies on its characteristic peculiarities and its specific occurrences in different types of activities
Furthering this research direction, we aim to study the peculiarities of conscious self-regulation in cognitive activity in children with mental developmental delay (DD), which is the most numerous and diverse subcategory of children with delays, who mostly take part in mainstream education classes and attend mainstream schools [13,14]
Summary
According to the holistic conceptual framework of Konopkin O.A. [1], the conscious self-regulation of actions is a system-like mental process of the initiation, development, and self-management of one’s conscious goal-guided activity, and it has certain types and forms.Research into the common patterns of conscious self-regulation has understandably led to studies on its characteristic peculiarities (varying among different groups of children) and its specific occurrences in different types of activities. Furthering this research direction, we aim to study the peculiarities of conscious self-regulation in cognitive activity in children with mental developmental delay (DD), which is the most numerous and diverse subcategory of children with delays, who mostly take part in mainstream education classes and attend mainstream schools [13,14]. This will help to uncover children’s capacities and discover the conditions that reduce dysfunction to a minimum and/or overcome dysfunction
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