DEVELOPMENTAL LEVEL OF THINKING OPERATIONS AT CHILDREN WITH SPEECH IMPAIRMENTS

Abstract

Simple accumulation of perceptive data, motor actions, verbal descriptions and intelligence that manages previously mentioned is not due to cognitive processes. “In order to get familiar with the objects, the subject has to act on them, which means transform them. Starting from the elementary sensory-motor actions, until the finest intellectual operations (formal-logic), which are actions yet, but interiorized and exe­cuted in the thoughts, cognition is continuously related to actions and operations, e.g. trans­formations (1).J. Piageot identifies three major levels of intellectual operation development:1. Sensory-motor intelligence – from birth up to the age of 18 months or until the end of the second year of age.2. Representational intelligence level – leading to specific operations. This is a longer deve­lop­men­tal period which lasts from the end of se­cond year up to 11-12 years of age.

Keywords

• thinking operations
• conservation
• classification
• serrations
• corresponding of two lines
• speech disabilities.