ОСОБЛИВОСТІ МОНОЛОГІЧНОГО МОВЛЕННЯ МОЛОДШИХ ШКОЛЯРІВ ІЗ ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНИМИ ПОРУШЕННЯМИ
One of the key competences of the New Ukrainian School is communication in native and state languages, in particular, the ability to freely express one’s own opinion, the ability to use language in the field of culture. Since the New Ukrainian School provides inclusive education for students with intellectual disabilities, teachers must have knowledge about the level of speech development of such students, its specifics. Junior schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities have a difficult transition to self-expression; own speech is insufficiently developed, fragmentary; the monologue often consists of logically unconnected parts; existing vocabulary poverty, undifferentiated understanding and use of familiar words; the construction of a coherent statement is disturbed. Underdevelopment of coherent speech affects the entire mental development of such children, the effectiveness of their learning, communication. The monologue speech of first-graders with mild intellectual disabilities was investigated, which showed their ability to perform tasks related to reliance on plot drawings or suggested words; assignments to compose one sentence than to compose stories based on a plot drawing or a series of plot drawings. Primary school teachers of inclusive schools assessed the monologue speech of their students and highlighted difficulties in their speech, not being sufficiently aware of the impact of correctional tasks in the children being taught on the development of coherent speech. Consequently, speech development of children with intellectual disabilities requires special interrelated correctional work of primary school teachers and speech therapists.