ECOLOGICAL THERAPY AS CORRECTIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ELEMENT OF INTEGRATED APPROACH IN THE TREATMENT OF LOGONEUROSIS AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

. The aims of the publication are: to analyse domestic experience of education and training of preschool children with logoneurosis; to designate the causes and displays of this disease; to define the problems arising through organization of correctional work in preschool institution taking into account modern requirements of the Russian legislation and climatic features of regions; to present a possible version of the solution of these problems.Methods. The methods of theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific, methodical publications, and legislative base on a problem of correctional work on stuttering among preschool children are used.Results and scientific novelty. The authors’ program of additional education with the correctional elements «Ecotherapy for Children at the age of 5–7 years with Logoneurosis» developed by the staff of the Ecotherapy Laboratory of the Polar Alpine Botanical Garden – Institute named after N. A. Avrorin is described in the publication. The program complies with the modern requirements of Federal State Educational Standard of preschool education and is focused on tutors and speech language therapists of correctional groups and logocentres. In the course of mastering the program, a child by means of a game at once joins in search-investigative activity in the field of biology and ecology with visualization of an ultimate goal and obligatory practical material realization of results of work. From the point of view of medical expediency, the program has included the special breathing and relaxation exercises which are picked up for the lesson topic. The efficiency of a combination in correctional pedagogics of standard logopedic methods and the practise with nonconventional methods of art-, garden-, and animal-assisted therapy is confirmed. Special relevance of the proposed techniques and methods in the conditions of the Polar region (the region, wherein during the period of an exit from polar night) is stated; most often not only somatic diseases but also logoneurotic attacks are registered among children. According to concluding observations of logopedists, through this program implementation, more than 50% of the preschool children participating in an experiment with the diagnosis of logoneurosis acquired the speech skills meeting language norms.Practical significance. The authors of the program of ecological therapy and staff of preschool educational institutions participating in the experiment, express confidence that the proposed techniques and methods allowing to remove neurotic manifestations among children and improve their psycho-emotional state through active development of sensorimotor skills, will be useful to teachers of educational and social institutions of all types working with children of preschool and younger school age.

Keywords

• логоневроз
• федеральный государственный образовательный стандарт дошкольного образования
• экологическая терапия
• гарденотерапия
• анималотерапия