EjSBS - The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher

Cognitive Development of Pre-School Children With Language and Speech Disorders

Table 1: Methods of research

General characteristics of methods Structure of methods Diagnosable indices
Method of rapid diagnosis of children’s intellectual abilities aged 6-7 years
This provides indicative information about the ability to learn in primary school and an individual structure of children’s intelligence. It is an original design based on world-famous international intelligence tests. I subtest Total awareness, vocabulary
II subtest Understanding the qualitative and quantitative relationship
III subtest The level of logical thinking development
IV subtest Mathematical abilities
an integral component of intellectual abilities The overall level of intellectual abilities
Pictured Vocabulary Test
The test is aimed at diagnosing the intellectual component of school maturity and to measure child verbal abilities. The test was adapted from the well-known famous American test "Phonic Key Card". the level of higher mental functions development, including the orientation to outside world, awareness, vocabulary, visual perception, the dictionary resourcefulness
Screening test of school maturity
The test is adapted from "Indicative test of school maturity" of Jirásek (Jirasek, 1978; Gutkina, 2000). It assesses the level of children’s general mental development and their school maturity Non-verbal subtest comprises three tasks:1. Drawing a male figure on the proposal;2. Imitation of a handwritten letter;3. To copy a group of points. Child’s psychomotor development, development of motor skills and hand motor coordination. The ability to reproduce pre-schooler level of writing of letters and geometric shapes indicating the general level of child’s intellectual development
Verbal subtest contains twenty questions The overall level of thinking, awareness about the world
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