Integrated forms of the education intended for preschool children with disorders of carpal functions in the correction of their practical activity

Abstract

The article considers and analyses the most effective integrated forms of labour and physical education of preschool children with disorders of carpal functions in the context of the formation and correction of their subject-practical activities. The main carpal functions include the ones which enable: support, spring resistance, pushing, stepping, balancing, gripping, height perception, two-handed coordination, manipulation, instrument-targeting, etc. Occupational education (occupational therapy) involves the use of tools for the development, restoration or correction of impaired wrist functions. Based on the analysis of available information on the problem of labour therapy, as well as our own long-term practical developments, the main forms of correction of pre-schoolers’ impaired carpal functions through labour combined with the possibilities of correctional physical education in preschool educational establishments. These included: individual physical exercises (with the elements of labour therapy), physical education classes with the elements of labour therapy, exercise classes with the elements of labour therapy, individual correction of physical development of the child by means of labour therapy, free activity in the form of independent instrumental activities, walks with the elements of labour therapy, home labour therapy. The perspective of research in this area is in the development of the relationship between children’s physical and labour education in the context of the correction of their carpal subject-practical activities.

Keywords

• labour therapy
• physical education
• correction
• subject-practical activity
• preschool children
• carpal function.