Many parents, having heard from doctors that their child is disabled, do not know what to do next. Many perceive this as a personal insult, begin to be shy, afraid. Of course, they continue to love their children, but do not know how to educate them and how to develop them properly. Unfortunately, few people know that such a problem is solved by the lecotheque. What is it, how does it affect the development of the child?
Definition of a concept
A lecture library is a service that provides early psychological and pedagogical assistance to those children who have disabilities.
Unique is that it aims to work not only with children, but also with their parents. And this is very important for the family. Translated from Swedish, “leko” means “toy”, and “tek” from Greek translates as “assembly”.
The Lekoteka Center is created for those children who are unable to attend schools or kindergartens together with others. They need the help of a defectologist, speech therapist, and psychologist. In addition, psychological and pedagogical support of the family is provided. To this end, special programs have been developed that take into account the characteristics of the psychophysical development of children and their individual needs.
Service Features
It must be emphasized that a lecture hall is being created for disabled children and those babies who have various deviations in their emotional, physical and mental state. There is organized space for children who have a developmental delay, there is a special area with many toys. The latter help to develop visual and auditory perception, sensory and motor skills, and also activate cognitive processes.
There is also a special music library, which is aimed at the comprehensive development of children. Many will argue that now there are many toys on sale, so it is not necessary to visit such institutions. However, most parents do not know what to do with such material.
History of the library
In 1963, the described structure began to operate in Switzerland. In Russia, it arose only in 2001. Today in Moscow is one of the largest units. It should be noted that there is a lekothek in the preschool educational institution and as a separate independent unit. It arose in connection with the problems that exist today. Every year the number of disabled children is growing. In many regions of our country, unfortunately, there are no units that could perform such functions. If children with cerebral palsy are now paying attention, then those who have vision and hearing problems have nowhere to go. There are practically no specialists. It is not enough to have one lesson with a pathologist or speech therapist.
In order to help such kids, you need to create a set of measures that will be aimed at helping a child with a delay in physical or mental development.
Features of classes in the center
Children who have problems intellectually, psychologically and physically will benefit greatly from the lecture room. What is it, for what age is it calculated? Already a one-year-old baby can begin classes in such centers. Here the space is organized correctly, all the toys are aimed at the development of the child. Specialized doctors work: narcologist, psychotherapist, social educator, organizing teacher, psychologist and others. At a certain time, parents and their kids come to the center, where specialists teach them how to properly develop their children and play with them.
At the end of the course, participants are given benefits for homework. After the child returns to classes again. If necessary, an additional course is created. Specialists study in Moscow.
There they are explained how the lecture room works, what it is, how to properly organize the comprehensive development and support of children and their families.
Basic concepts
A library for disabled children has a basic idea. It consists in using the game at an early age to teach kids to properly communicate with the outside world. Special technologies are created that are adapted to their capabilities. They learn to play, to perceive the world and the phenomena in it, and also to react correctly to what is happening around. Elizabeth Newson - a British psychologist - outlined some theoretical foundations. She published the book "Toys and Toys", which actively discusses the theme of the game and its impact on the overall development and formation of personality.
Formation of the service in the DOW
In many preschool institutions of our country, a lekothek begins to function. What is it, already knows many families who have children with disabilities. Here, toys that take into account all the needs of the baby are selected in a special way.
Specialists are very careful to ensure that all products have the required communicative, physical, intellectual and sensory characteristics.
Today it is often possible to meet children who have a deficit of attention. They have signs of autism or hyperactivity. For them, all the characteristics in the toy must be carefully balanced. Perfectly suitable radio-controlled models. They are very easy to use, visually and with the help of sounds they stimulate the baby and suggest how to act. Such material makes it possible to very easily establish cause and effect relationships, teaches one to navigate in space and operate with the concepts of “right-left”, “back-and-forth”. Soon, the baby begins to understand the relationship “above-under”.
It is important to note that during the game the child develops fine motor skills of the fingers, learns to plan their actions correctly. The result is immediately processed, the object is tracked, and attention is focused on the correctness of its movements.
Thus, we see that the lecture hall, a program aimed at the general development of children with disabilities, is an excellent way to help not only kids, but also their parents, because most often in such situations adults do not know how to deal with their child how to adapt it to real life.