The article reviews the problem of forming communicative competencies among junior schoolchildren with persistent learning difficulties. Features of speech development of this category of students are disclosed. Modern scientific ideas about the structure of communicative universal educational actions are considered. Speech and socio-psychological skills are defined, which form the basis of each structural component of communicative universal educational actions. Method of diagnostics of communicative universal actions in students with persistent learning difficulties and peculiarities of development of communicative universal educational actions identified in them during diagnostics are presented. The stages of pedagogical activity on formation of communicative universal educational actions in junior schoolchildren with persistent difficulties in learning are indicated.