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 |