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Relevance (context) of the topic of the article. Speech development is a key factor in the academic success of students. Reading and writing as types of speech activity are metalinguistic competencies that provide students of all levels of education with the assimilation of the content of academic disciplines, communication and influencing further socialization. Therefore, the issues of timely mass diagnostics of speech development disorders in modern children are becoming more relevant. The article examines the domestic and world experience in the diagnosis of speech disorders, including the use of screenings for assessing the risks of speech and psychological development; the changes in the system of dispensary speech therapy observation of children that have occurred in Russia over the past 10 years are analyzed, models of psychological and pedagogical support of children with speech disorders are described.

The aim of the article is to describe a model of a standardized two-stage speech screening procedure; to present the content of the first stage, the algorithm for its implementation and the analysis of the results of the primary approbation of the questionnaire for assessing speech development in 7-year-old children.

Description of the research progress. The study was conducted in 15 educational organizations in Moscow in 2020-2021. Based on modern ideas about the child’s speech development, a questionnaire was developed to assess speech development and tested in preschool groups with 686 children aged 7 years-7 years and 3 months. The main research methods are observation, questionnaire, methods of mathematical statistics.

The results of the study. A questionnaire for assessing the speech development of a 7-year-old child is presented, which allows identifying students who need logoscreening (stage 2) and differentiated help from a speech therapist teacher. Statistical data on speech disorders in this age group were obtained.

Conclusion. It is concluded that it is important to conduct two-stage speech screening in critical periods of development, and an algorithm for its testing is proposed. The advantages of the screening system for the selection of children in need of psychological and pedagogical support for the executive authorities in the field of education, educational organizations and the child are indicated. 

Child neuropsychology studies brain functional causes of learning disabilities. Such causes might be conformed as types or neuropsychological profiles, each of which might be commonly established during neuropsychological clinical assessment.

The aim of the article is to show the possibilities of historical and cultural approach in neuropsychology for conformation and study of such qualitative profiles. The authors, basing on own experience during more them two decades of direction of neuropsychological assessment, present types of neuropsychological profiles, which are common in Russia and Mexico in cases of learning disabilities, according to diversity of different errors and mistakes found in each particular case.

It’s interesting to notice that there are both coincidence and difference within the process of identification of neuropsychological profiles by specialists. The article discusses the necessity of continuation of clinical analysis of syndromes as typical and atypical qualitative profiles in order to understand and provide optimal assessment and treatment in cases of learning disabilities.