Expert diagnostics of the oral speech condition in preschoolers by the Bureau of medicalsocial expertise

Psychological diagnostics is an important component of the state service on the inspection of preschool children in the medico-social examination bureau of mixed and specialized profile. Symptoms of mental dysfunctions are verified and objectivised in the process of expert psychological diagnosis of preschoolers, which are then combined in pathopsychological symptom, resistance and severity of violations are specified. Obligatory components of the psycho-diagnostics expert assessment are damaged and intact sides of child mental activity, the state of his behavioral and emotional-volitional, cognitive-gaming activities, the determination of proximal development zone. The symptoms of abnormalities in the development of speech, pathophysiological mechanisms, its causes are identified and assessed in the process of psycho-diagnostics. These data are necessary for the formation of clinical and functional diagnosis, assessment of rehabilitation potential of the child, formation of rehabilitation measures complex. The article suggests that we use in the expert work of the criteria and methods of evaluation of disorders of language and speech functions in this category being examined. Techniques are intended to diagnose disorders of speech in children. An algorithm is proposed, which facilitates identification and objectification of the severity and persistence of speech disorders by experimental psychological examination.

medical and social assessment, pre-school children, speech and language function, expressive and impressive speech, speech disorders, and psychological examination