Open AccessStudy of the features of fears in preschool children with impaired speech development in comparison with normally developing peers in Moscow City
Author(s) -
Victoria Kolyagina,
Maria Valdes Odriozola,
Anna Eremina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
e3s web of conferences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2555-0403
pISSN - 2267-1242
DOI - 10.1051/e3sconf/202128408018
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , conversation , test (biology) , documentation , data collection , descriptive statistics , typically developing , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , communication , autism , computer science , biology , programming language
Currently, the number of children with impaired speech development is constantly increasing, but the emotional difficulties that exist in this category of children remain insufficiently studied. Regional studies are particularly important in this area, and they provide the best insight into which emotional disturbances are related to the structure of the disability and the family situation, and which are related to general social tensions in a particular region and especially in a metropolitan setting. This article presents the research data on the psychological study of fears in children with various speech development disorders and their normally developing peers. The aim of the research is to identify and study the characteristics of fears in preschoolers with speech development impairments in Moscow City. The research methods. The study and analysis of medical, psychological and pedagogical literature, observation, conversation, the study of medical and pedagogical documentation, collection and analysis of anamnestic data, analysis of the products of children’s activities, modified questionnaire by A.I. Zakharov “fears in the houses”, Peter Muris’s modified test “fear levels”, a questionnaire for parents to identify the fears of children and parents, test questionnaire of child-parent relationship (QPR) by A.Y. Vargi and V.V. Stolin. methods of mathematical statistics, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the experimental data. The results of the study. Experimental data were obtained and systematized. It characterizes the features of fears of older preschoolers with different impaired speech development in comparison with normally developing peers. The description of the dominant fears of preschool children and their specific features inherent in children with speech disorders is given. Data were obtained on predisposition to an increased number of fears in the male part of the examined group of children. There were identified the average fears indicators that were higher than the existing standards for all the studied groups.