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This article is focused on the study of the role and content of the system of physical education of preschool age children with developmental delay. The author notes that in the development of higher nervous activity and mental functions of human, scientists put emphasis on the importance of the influence of motor analyzer.

Systematic usage of means of physical training allows to prevent the occurrence of secondary deviations in physical development and promotes intensive social integration of children with development delay. The system of physical education in special education gives the chance to the preschool child with development delay to become a full member of society, to actively participate in the further school life, to develop potentialities and to show the natural abilities.

The article also emphasizes that physical development should be an important part of the general system of education, upbringing and correction of children with intellectual disabilities. The main purpose of physical education of children of this category is defined by the author as correction and compensation of physical development defects, general and fine motor skills that hinder successful learning and upbringing.

The key directions of rehabilitation work with children of preschool age with development delays are defined as: improvement of basic motor functions and sensory sphere; development of fine motor skills of hands and fingers; improvement of articulation motor skills; correction of separate sides of mental activity; improvement of spatial representations and orientation, auditory attention and memory; development of different types of thinking; correction of disorders in the development of emotional-volitional sphere; formation of speech breathing; strengthening of general health.

Training of separate movements, elements of actions, bringing them to variant automatic performance, combining these elements in conscious activity are at the heart of the system of physical training of preschool children with development delay.

The article presents diagnostic and corrective methods designed for study and correction of sensory-perceptual activity of preschool children with intellectual disabilities. Sensory-perceptual activity is considered as a basis for further cognitive development of children in this group. The diagnostic method of its study involves differential criteria for fulfilling experimental tasks by three groups of preschool children – normally developing children, children with developmental delay and children with mental retardation. The corrective method aimed at forming such sensory-perceptual processes, as the ability to relate the properties of subjects to predetermined reference forms and the ability to model planar shapes of subjects is based on the gradual formation of mental actions theory developed by P.Y. Galperin. Both the diagnostic and corrective methods are based on L.A. Venger’s approach to the study of sensory-perceptive activity of preschool children.