The speech as a higher mental function has its specific role as it mediates other mental processes and integrates them into a single system. That is why a delay in the speech development leads to major developmental problems and along with speech difficulties a child with dysarthria demonstrates a lack of voluntary regulation and concentration as well as other behavioural problems.
The research aim was to increase the level of self-regulation of children with dysarthria.
The sample consisted of 25 children of five years old, underwent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at an early age (up to 1 year), with delayed speech development. The diagnostics included neuropsychological battery of tests in Glozman’s adaptation. The intervention course consisted of 15 sessions of sensorimotor correction. Each session included breathing and oculomotor exercises, various kinds of crawling aimed at improving coordination and reciprocal coordination and some other physical exercises.
According to the results of the intervention program 89% of children showed improvement in self-regulation level. There was no pronounced dynamics in 11% of the cases; we see the reason of it in a relatively short duration of the course.

SENSORIMOTOR CORRECTION AS A METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-REGULATION IN CHILDREN WITH DYSARTHRIA