| Abstract [eng] |
This work contains the theoretical analysis of psycho-motorics of pre-school children. The hypothesis that a ball therapy program applied to children with linguistic, speaking and communication disorders had a positive influence on their postural control, coordination movements and speaking functions was put forward. During the five months lasted experiment the research was done. The aim of this research was to explore and compare the level in the posture development and coordination movements of examined children in experimental and control groups as well as determine the influence of the ball therapy on the development of motorics and speaking functions of children in an experimental group. It was done the statistical analysis of the results (averages, correlation and Chi square). 40 six-year-old children with linguistic, speaking and communication disorders from 2 kindergartens took part in this experiment. The empirical part provides the analysis of pre-school children’s linguistic, speaking and communicative disorders, the level of development of a posture and coordination skills, links between these areas and effect of correction exercises with therapeutic balls on children’s psycho-motor development. Here are the main conclusions of the empirical research: 1. Examined children have small linguistic, speaking and communicative disorders. Phonetic and phonological disorders are the most common. The results of the research into initial posture and coordination functions showed that pre-school children have quite poor symmetry of posture, coordination and balance skills. 2. The improvement of psycho motor skills, in the children group where correction exercises were not applied, was very slight. When evaluating the influence of correction exercises on the development of children in experimental group it was noticed a remarkable improvement of linguistic, posture and coordination skills. 3. The analysis of tests set for assessing speech, posture and coordination functions which were done during the three stages of the experiment determined big and statistically important ( ) correlation links between investigated fields. |
