<p><strong>Aim: </strong>to establish the influence of swimming as a means of adaptive physical education on behavior, emotional state, sensory, motor coordination and quality of life of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).</p><p><strong>Material and methods</strong>. Three children with autism who were swimming were examined. Research methods: pedagogical observations, pedagogical experiment, method of expert evaluations, questionnaires.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>. There is a significant improvement in the behavior of children with ASD: reducing aggression and autoaggression, reducing the frequency of stereotyped movements, reducing opposition, improving emotional state, improving willpower, improving coordination and dexterity. According to the results of expert assessment, against the background of increasing the results of dexterity, the formation of swimming skills, a significant increase in positive emotions, the acquisition of communication skills there is a significant reduction in problem behavior. Swimming is a powerful sensory stimulus for children with ASD, they improve their sensory profile by promoting proper sensory responses. Swimming contributes to a significant increase in the quality of life of both children and their parents.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Swimming is a powerful sensory stimulus for children with ASD. As a result of swimming lessons in children with ASD there is an improvement in behavior, development of communication skills, development of smooth movements, growth of positive emotions, development of swimming skills. Swimming also helps to improve the quality of life of children with ASD and their parents. In children with ASD, swimming helps to improve certain indicators of the sensory profile. Individual swimming lessons can be recommended for children with ASD as an effective means of adaptive physical education.</p>

<p><strong>The </strong><strong>aim</strong> of the work is to establish the impact of adaptive physical education classes according to our proposed method on the motor abilities and behavior of children with autism spectrum disorders and on the quality of life of their families.</p><p><strong>Material and methods</strong>. Analysis and generalization of literature data on the peculiarities of psycho-motor development of children with autism, their behavior. Development of methods of adaptive physical education of children with autism, which includes exercises for the development of general and fine motor skills, imitation, coordination of movements and the development of physical qualities such as strength, agility, flexibility. Expert assessment of test exercises. Questionnaire of parents about the psychophysical condition of their children and the quality of life of families raising a child with autism. Methods of mathematical statistics.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>. It has been established that children with autism have significant impairments of motor activity and psychophysical condition, which significantly affects the quality of life of children and their families. There is a very low level of development of motor skills. Parents of children in the experimental group noted that from now on their children began to have fewer problems with movement, their movements became more coordinated and it became easier to move. In terms of self-care and self-care, the difficulties became less significant (average level), the usual daily activities also became easier, the phenomena of discomfort and anxiety decreased.</p><p><strong>Conclusions</strong>. Children with autism have significant deviations in motor development, arbitrariness of movements, understanding of expediency of movements, general motility of the body. Classes in adaptive physical education according to our proposed method allowed children with autism to overcome most motor disorders, which was a prerequisite for improving higher nervous activity and behavior. Significant improvement of psychophysical condition of children as a result of employment, and also growth of quality of life is established.</p>

The problem of studying the significance of teachers’ professional skills as the component of the quality of higher education and the element of students’ motivation is being analyzed in the article. The purpose of the research is study and analyzes of students’ attitude towards teachers’ professional skills as the component of the quality of higher education. The research has been conducted with the help of theoretical and empirical methods. Connection between the quality of higher education and teachers’ professional skills has been established with the help of dialectical method. The use of comparative method allowed us to implement the raking division of students’ attitude towards teachers’ professional skills. The empirical base of the research consists of the results of the survey of 175 students of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. The following teachers’ professional skills: the ability to arouse the interest for the subject; clarity, accessibility and comprehensibility of the information layout; the ability to create a teamwork, motivate to achieve goals have been granted the highest ranking according to students’ attitude towards teachers’ professional skills. Such skills as objectivity and transparency of evaluation; goodwill and tactfulness; creative approach to studying; subject competence; erudition and culture of speech are highly evaluated. The following qualities: the culture of a dress code; organizational culture; the ability to act accordingly with moral, ethical and legal standards; the ability to recognize, formulate and solve problems constitute the interim position of the general ranking. Content significance and accessibility of the information which is being taught; skills of informational technologies; the ability to choose forms and methods of teaching which comply with student-oriented approach have been positioned at the lowest point of the general ranking according to the survey.

The purpose of the research is to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of the understanding of sports and the values it forms by teenagers in the USA and Ukraine. The object of the research is teenagers from Ukraine and the United States. The subject of the research is the understanding of sports and the values it forms by teenagers. The main objectives are to identify common and distinctive features of attitudes towards sports and its axiological component in Ukrainian and American schoolchildren. The results of the cross-cultural comparison show the availability of both the same understanding of certain values in sports and an excellent vision caused, in our opinion, by the divergence of cultural traditions and the status of sport in the state Key words sports, values, the USA, Ukraine, teenagers, understanding АннотацияЦель исследования -провести кросс-культурный анализ представлений подростков обеих стран о спорте и ценностях, которые он формирует. Объект исследования -подростки Украины и США. Предмет исследования -представление подростков о спорте и ценностях, которые он формирует. Задание: выявить общие и отличительные особенности отношения к спорту и его аксиологической составляющей у украинских и американских школьников. Так, полученные нами результаты кросс-культурного исследования среди подростков США и Украины свидетельствуют о наличии как одинакового представления об определенных ценностях в спорте, так и разного видения, обусловленного, по нашему мнению, расхождением в вопросах культурных традиций и статуса спорта в государстве.Ключевые слова спорт, ценности, США, Украина, подростки, представление Введение Процессы глобализации, превращающие человеческое сообщество в «мировое село», актуализируют кросс-культурные исследования, которые становятся одними из важнейших направлений научных

Topicality. The Olympic education of youth is one of the most important components in the formation of a harmoniously developed personality, the development of feelings and attitudes, habits of behavior, based on the Olympic principles, the Olympic values and the Olympic ideal. Task. To study the content component of the Olympic themes in the comprehensive curriculum on physical culture. Methods. Analysis of literary sources, method of comparative analysis, methods of theoretical interpretation. Results. The results of our research have made it possible to find out the importance and necessity of studying the Olympic theme information by schoolchildren. Conclusions. Olympic education plays an important role in the process of teaching physical education. Students engaged in sports must learn to constantly strive for self-improvement, to work daily on the development of their spiritual, mental, volitional and physical abilities.