Coordination abilities development in preschool children with mental retardation by means of football in the process of adaptive physical education

In this article, the authors consider the problem of coordination abilities development by means of football in children with mental retardation in preschool educational institutions of compensating type. Football and its elements are also actively used in the practice of adaptive physical education and sports for people with disabilities. This is due to the high popularity of this sport as a means of sports, general physical, coordination training of the younger generation, including ones with disabilities. Data of correlation analysis of interrelation of technical elements of sports game with manifestations of coordination abilities of children of the studied group are given. The authors present a classification of football tools from the point of view of purposeful development of certain manifestations of specific coordination abilities in preschool children.