Abstract: in the article the authors describe the major difficulties for perception of children with deep visual impairments of their body and ways of solving these problems, characteristics of correctional work with children who have visual impairments.
Disorders of the vestibular, auditory perception and the physicality are described. The analysis of bodywork and motor industry as one of the main stages in correctional work for children with profound visual impairment, anticipating follow-up activities and directions correction is made.
Scientific novelty. One of the directions of correctional work of the psychologist of the branch of Special library for the blind of Tyumen with children from 3 to 11 years old with deep visual analyzer disorders is presented. The following features were identified: the presence of similar difficulties in the perception of their own body by children with different developmental pathologies; violation of the perception of themselves as a whole body by children with deep visual pathology; difficulties in volitional regulation of a blind child; difficulties in maintaining a static posture and violations of muscle tone in blind children with different movements.
Practical significance. Observation of the motor activity of blind children allowed us to see several problem areas and ways to overcome them: a blind child has difficulties in understanding the dynamics of various muscle groups, and therefore creating an initial idea of the motor act will also be difficult. It is necessary to give the child the opportunity to explore and study the structure of their own body under the supervision of a specialist. For the formation of motor skills, it is necessary to create opportunities for control through concentration on the moment “here and now”. In order to expand the compensatory capabilities of a blind child, it is necessary to fix in his memory a sufficiently large number of images of elementary movements mastered by him. An important condition for understanding the child’s own movements is to expand the vocabulary associated with the speech description of the actions performed.
The article describes the features of work on correcting the perception of one’s own corporeality and developing motor activity in a blind child: stimulating deep sensitivity, normalizing the functioning of the level of tonic regulation; learning to group individual muscle groups; gradually complicating motor standards; expanding the active vocabulary about one’s body and its individual parts; developing the ability to take a starting position according to a verbal description, follow verbal instructions for performing a motor act.
Keywords: perception of one’s body, blindness, movement, deep sensitivity, tone, bodily sensitivity, body boundaries, motor skill, visual impairment