REFLECTION IN COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY OF PRESCHOOLERS WITH SYSTEM SPEECH DISORDERS The article deals with reflexive difficulties in communication activity of senior preschoolers with system speech disorders. The author reviews theoretical background for reflection studies in psychology: from the standpoint of mental processes, intrapersonal formation, multiple processes phenomenon. According to the study reflection is interpreted by the author as a precondition for effective communication, while its deficit is considered to be the cause of various communication difficulties, operational ones, in particular. It has been discovered that reflection development process continues during the preschool age and senior preschoolers show certain prerequisites of reflexivity, which can be observed in different areas of their activity. Communication activity is one of the most meaningful and productive in this regard. In childhood reflection, as personality formation, depends on the extent of ability for self-analysis, self-expression and forecasting. Experimental data analysis on the communication activity of senior preschool age children with system speech disorders of primary genesis revealed difficulties in reflection of various activities: speaking, drawing and playing. The research on reflection of senior preschool age children with system speech disorders has been carried out by the means of observation and experimental study. The conducted experiments allowed to discover the following communication reflection difficulties faced by the children: difficulties of selfanalysis and self-observation, self-expression and self-improvement, and evaluating mutual activity results on their basis. Such difficulties in communication activity cause communication barriers for interactions with adults and peers, affect the interaction results. The described research has shown that difficulties of reflection impede communication interactions, indicate insufficient development of interactive communication skills. In this regard the further development of communication activity of senior preschoolers with system speech disorders should be carried out considering peculiarities not only in their communication skills development, but also specifics of reflection as intrapersonal formation, closely related to individual identity and self-consciousness.

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The article raises the issue of general speech underdevelopment in six-year-old children as a disorder of complex aetiology, which includes a combination of genetically determined insufficiency of certain brain systems with the consequences of organic damage to the central nervous system. This topic is of significant interest these days, because moderate general speech underdevelopment with a positive prognosis occurs in 15-25% of children and an average of 5% have severe disorders that interfere with adaptation. Children with such underdevelopment have difficulties in social development, quality of which directly depends on the level of development of the ability to build coherent statements that prevent formation of readiness for school. The article contains a description of the features of motivational and volitional readiness for school in children with general speech underdevelopment, methods of its evaluation and a review of experimental research. A psychological readiness for school from the point of formation of motives and their features, as well as the quality of self-regulation of children with general speech underdevelopment is characterized. Conditions for development of coherent speech in children of this category and the features of purposeful and consistent correctional and pedagogical work are considered. Examples of correctional methods from the point of view of neuropsychology and substantiation of necessity of creation of pedagogical conditions for correction and development of speech in children with the general underdevelopment of speech are presented. For a long time, the issue of readiness of pre-schoolers for school has been of vital importance, which is due in part to the current large-scale socio-economic changes in society.