Typology of Communication Activity of Children with System Speech Disorders

Abstract

The article contains the findings of the experimental study on communication activity of elder preschool age children with developmental language disorders (DLD): developmental state of communication skills and means of communication, personal communication arsenal. Experimental data analysis demonstrates insufficiency in development of informative, perceptive and interactive communication skills in children with the named speech disorders. Deficiency of the listed skills causes various difficulties in different communication situations involving peers and adults and is being manifested through informative, perceptive and interactive components of communication. It was noted that such level of communication skills development is typical for contextual and practical communication interactions, which indicates delay of this stage of communication development in senior preschool age. Specific features of communication skills of the senior preschool age children with DLD are caused by the shortage of the means of communication, as well as by the individual communicative traits of a child. It was discovered that specific development of the personal communication qualities in preschool children with DLD causes difficulties at the very basic level of communication activity. On the basis of experimental data there has been developed a child’s personal profile. Experimental data analyze is allowed defining certain types of communication activity of elder preschool age children with system speech disorders.