The use of dance exercises in developing coordination abilities in preschoolers with multiple disabilities

The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of the developed set of dance exercises on the development of coordination abilities in preschoolers aged 5–7 years with multiple disabilities. Research methods and organization. In the course of the study, an analysis of literary sources, regulatory legal acts and extracts from medical documentation, as well as testing (assessing the level of ability to orient in space, to maintain dynamic balance, and to perform ordered and coordinated movements of the body and its parts) and methods of mathematical and statistical data processing using the Wilcoxon test for related samples were used. Five preschoolers with combined visual and intellectual impairments took part in the pedagogical experiment and were engaged for six weeks in the approved preschool education program, supplemented with the developed set of dance exercises. Research results and conclusions. It was revealed that the use of dance exercises and dance sequences composed of them in the process of adaptive physical education has a positive effect on the development of coordination abilities in preschoolers aged 5–7 years with combined visual and intellectual impairments.