St. Petersburg State University, Russia, St. Petersburg, *olchel@yandex.ru, **lyakso@gmail.com
The aim of the study is to determine the specificity of communicative skills in groups of 5-7 years old children with intellectual disabilities in the situations of interaction with adults and peers. The participants of the study were children with mild intellectual disabilities (n = 15, code F70 according to ICD-10) and mixed specific developmental disorders (n = 20, F83), brought up in an orphanage; children with mixed specific developmental disorders (n = 7) and typically developing children (n = 54), brought up in a family. The indicators of verbal and nonverbal communication were revealed during interaction between a child and an adult, a child and a peer, which differ in children from studied groups.
verbal communication; nonverbal communication; orphanage; mild intellectual disabilities; mixed specific developmental disorders
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