Creative self-development of adolescents with disabilities: categorial analysis

Exploring the creative self-development of personality as a psychological and pedagogical issue the authors analyze the concepts of “development”, “self-development” and “creativity”. The age patterns of adolescents are considered. In adolescence, the transition from childhood to adulthood is associated with a serious restructuring of the psyche, breaking old, established forms of relationships with people, changing living conditions and activities. Issue of creative self-development of adolescents with disabilities is the problem of lacking proper interaction with others, which entails the lack in formation of self-knowledge skills, self-organization, self-regulation, and other mechanisms of self-development. Along with pedagogical tasks involving the creation of conditions for the development of creative activity of adolescents with disabilities, it is important to solve the priority task – the education of a whole understanding personality capable of an adequate assessment of their actions and successful adaptation in the surrounding space. The results obtained are applicable in conducting further research on the selection of tools for the creative self-development of adolescents with disabilities by means of theatrical art.