DYNAMICS OF HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS WITH COMPLEX LEARNING DIFFICULTIES DURING CORRECTIONAL WORK

Abstract

The article analyzes dynamics of higher psychological functions (HPF) of primary school pupils with complex learning difficulties (CLD) during correction and development support. With the use of the neuropsychological approach to the diagnostics of mental development, to the corrective developing training of primary school children with learning difficulties (Vugotskiy, 1996; Luria, 2002; Tsvetkova, 2005; Akhutina, 2008, 2012), the researcher defines causes of neuropsychological initiating CLD of primary school children, and organized a special neuropsychological assistance aimed at optimizing the mental functions deficit of these children. The identification and the consideration of peculiarities in the development of HPF of primary school pupils having different success in educational activities (successful in learning, having partial and complex difficulties in learning) allow to predict the efficiency of compensatory-developing work on overcoming existing educational problems of primary school children.