Effectiveness of the use of role-playing games for the social competence development in preschool children with intellectual disabilities
Effectiveness of the use of role-playing games for the social competence development in preschool children with intellectual disabilities

Summary/Abstract: In order to include preschool children with intellectual disabilities into the modern society, it is necessary to form and develop in them certain social knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the use of story-role-playing games for the development of social competence of preschool children with intellectual disabilities. Assessment of the levels of social competence in children with intellectual disabilities are based only on teachers’ observations. The methodology, that was developed in this study, consists of four units and takes into account psychological and pedagogical peculiarities of development of children of the selected nosology. The comprehensive methodology includes “social-motivational”, “social-cognitive”, “social-activity”, and “social-personal” units. Results were analyzed accordingly to the following methods: conversation, observation, analysis, synthesis, generalization, mathematical data processing and showed that role-playing games were developed and implemented in the educational process. They were aimed at overcoming the gaps in the social experience of senior preschoolers with intellectual disabilities.

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