Didactic potential of cartoon animation in development of speech among senior preschoolers with bisensory disorders

Statement of the problem. Modern researchers emphasize the need for practical use of new tools, including the use of information and communication tools, learning and development of children with disabilities. One of the growing groups of children with disabilities is a group of preschoolers with simultaneous hearing and visual impairments. With regard to this group of children, the problem field for research is wide, and scientific developments are few. Therefore, the problem of finding means of comprehensive development of preschool children with bisensory impairments, and, in particular, their speech development, remains quite relevant in visual impairment pedagogy. One of such means, according to the authors of the article, is cartoon animation. The purpose of the article is to disclose the didactic potential of cartoon animation as a pedagogical tool in the development of speech among preschool children with significant hearing impairment and simultaneous visual impairment in the degree of visually impaired. Methodology (materials and methods) The research methodology is based on the fundamental scientific work of S.A. Zykov, revealing the essence of communicative-activity system and its leading role in the speech development of children with hearing impairment; it is also based on the analysis of foreign and Russian scientific works, revealing the content of innovative approaches in teaching children with bisensory impairment. Research results. The article reveals the didactic potential of cartoon animation as a means of speech development among children with significant hearing impairment corrected by hearing aids or cochlear implants and simultaneous visual impairment in the degree of amblyopia. It is shown that the essential content of the process of creating cartoons in the joint activity of children and adults, as well as the use of ready-made cartoons, plays an essential role in the complex process of speech development, namely, in the development of grammatical structure of speech, coherent speech, and enrichment of the vocabulary. We have developed an algorithm for the joint activities of an adult and a child with simultaneous hearing and vision impairment in the creation of cartoon films aimed at the speech development of this group of children. Conclusion. Cartoon animation, being a modern information and communication tool, has a high potential for application in defectology. The process of creating cartoons in the joint activity of preschool children with bisensory impairments and adults, as well as the use of ready-made cartoons they have created, is potentially one of the effective techniques of the communicative-activational system used in deaf-blind pedagogy and typhlo-surdopedagogy. The process of creating cartoons can be used as a means of developing all components of speech in preschool children with significant hearing impairment with correction by hearing aids or cochlear implants and simultaneous visual impairment of low vision.