Research on Senior Preschool Children with Intellectual Development Disorders Communication Motivation with Contemporaries in the Course of Game Activity

Abstract

Theoretical review on communication motivation problem of senior preschool children with intellectual activity disorder and also comparative research of communication features of children with contemporaries in the course of game activity is presented in study. Communication features of children with intellectual development disorder in the course of game activity are noted. The obtained data confirm that verbal formation level and nonverbal communication means of children with intellectual disorders is much lower, than that of children with normal intellectual development. So, children with intellectual development disorder seldom initiate and support dialog. They do not use nonverbal means of communication. Also, it was revealed that children with intellectual development disorder have all categories of their communication motivation broken. They seldom resort to communication with contemporaries in game activity. Interaction level in game situation is very low for such children.