Reading

Extract from the classical paper by Alexander Romanovich is at the intersection of linguistics and psychology. It examines those psychological conditions, which are necessary for proper understanding of the semantics of individual words and sentences.

The paper is devoted to understanding of the literary text. Understanding of commonly understood meaning and sense are distinguished. Peculiarities and difficulties in understanding of words, phrases and coherent text by children with hearing loss are analyzed in deep.

The research is devoted to study of correlation between speech, reading and writing disorders in children, as well as to mutual influence of these types of speech disorders. The article is abundant in experimental examples.

The paper validates possibility of using the results of study of a literary text as a differential diagnostic criterion of mental retardation. Difficulties experienced by children with mental deficiency in perception and understanding of the text are described and analyzed in detail.

The paper deals with study of perception of a narrative story by preschoolers with hearing impairments. An approximate plan of work with children, including descriptive stories, is given.

The book examines causes of disturbances in reading development of deaf-blind children, it explains why traditional teaching methods could not provide a reliable success in preparing for independent reading in this most difficult category of potential readers. The author reveals an innovative approach to identification, removal and prevention of disturbances in reading development of these children at the early stages of their reading ontogeny. The book presents the course content dealing with directive formation of basic components of reading activity, guidelines for its main sections, organization principles of available reading range for children at the early stages of reading development. The book is written for specialists working with children with visual and hearing impairments, methodologists and psychologists interested in problems of directive formation of basic components of children’s reading activity.