Formation of Social and Communicative Competencein Preschoolers With General Speechunderdevelopment

The article thoroughly investigates an extremely relevant and understudied problem of forming social and communicative competence in preschool children with general speech underdevelopment. The authors convincingly prove the decisive role of purposeful development of this competence to ensure successful socialization, adaptation, integration, andfull functioning of children with speech disorders in modern society.The paper proposes the authors' interpretation of the concept of social andcommunicative competence of preschoolers with general speech underdevelopment as a set of knowledge, skills, abilities, social qualities necessary for effective interaction in typical social situations, taking into account the specifics of the speech disorder. The structure of thisphenomenon is characterized in detail, and its main components are highlighted: motivationalvalue, cognitive-content, activity, and subjective. The range of specific difficulties in the formation of social and communicative skills faced by children with general speech underdevelopment is outlined. The authors provide a set of psychological and pedagogical conditions necessary for the effective purposeful formation of social and communicative competence in working withchildren of this category. The urgent need for the implementation of a comprehensive and differentiated approach in correctional and developmental activities with maximum consideration of the individual characteristics of each child, the degree of severity, and thespecifics of the speech disorder is substantiated.Emphasis is placed on the prospects for further modernization and improvement of methods, means, and technologies of teaching and upbringing aimed at developing the social and communicative skills of preschoolers with general speech underdevelopment in inclusiveeducation settings. The need to develop a holistic system of systematic work and create appropriate diagnostic tools to monitor the process of forming social and communicative competence for timely correction is emphasized.