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The article deals with the question of providing assistance to kindergarten children with severe speech disorders, in particular, with the mild form of dysarthria. Preschool educational organization may include children whose speech is slurred, gibberish, accelerated and inexpressive. These children refuse to recite poetry at matinees, and show a lack of motor dexterity at music and physical education lessons. Many children who suffer from obliterated dysarthria, have a poor command of self-service skills, they are often found to have fine motor skill disorders. Thus, the defect structure in the light form of dysarthria includes not only speech problems, but also those involving the psychological and motor speech basis. The mild case of dysarthria, which is mainly manifested in unintelligible speech in preschool years, becomes complicated by written language acquisition difficulties at school age. Many teachers regard these mistakes as errors due to inattention, but these errors stem from a speech disorder – obliterated dysarthria when children are observed to articulate speech sounds in an unclear or blurred way. All this prevents them from learning their school subjects successfully. At the same time, speech therapists and specialists, kindergarten teachers and parents are in a position to help a child with obliterated dysarthria as early as in his preschool period. They can eliminate the disturbances that hamper clear and distinct speech, and remove the preconditions for written speech disorders in children. The article examines questions of how to detect nonverbal disorders and to overcome them in a kindergarten.

The article provides a clear-cut definition of the categories of children with disabilities, a brief description of severe speech disorders and the specifics of the development of such children. The author tried to show preschool educators the specificity of different types of severe speech disorders in preschool children. The article gives the definition and description of such speech defects as dysarthria, sensory and motor alalia, children’s aphasia, stuttering, and general underdevelopment of speech and rhinolalia. The article offers a program for correcting various speech disorders, the author’s own methods and recommendations for the content of educational programs adapted for children with severe speech disorders. At the end of the article we provide a long list of references and important online resource for parents who have children with developmental problems.