CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CONTENT OF THE SOCIAL SITUATION OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE ONTOGENY DYNAMICS IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the mutual mediation of the social situation of development and the ontogeny dynamics in children with cerebral palsy. The relevance of the study of ontogeny of special needs children in the framework of age-dependent and developmental psychology is due to the purpose of ensuring maximum availability and efficiency of social integration of such children at different age stages. It is impossible to do by studying special development only within the subject field of clinical
(special needs) psychology and requires its consideration as one of the options of the child cultural ontogeny as a whole. The subject of the study is represented by sources, processes and examples of mediation of mental ontogeny of a child with cerebral palsy by the social situation of development. The principle con dition of the study was the representation of ontogeny of children with cerebral palsy as an integral process through the lens of constructive or destructive neoformations in the structure of interpersonal relationships and activities of a sick child. The study involved 50 children from 3 to 18 years old and their parents.