Lekoteka - what is it? Center "Lecotheca"

Many parents, hearing from doctors that their child is disabled, do not know what to do next. Many perceive this as a personal insult, they begin to be shy, afraid. Of course, they continue to love their children, but do not know how to teach them and how to develop them properly. Unfortunately, few people know that such problems are solved by the lekoteka. What is it, how does it affect the development of the child?

Definition of concept

Lekoteka is a service that provides early psychological and pedagogical assistance to those children who have limited opportunities. Unique is that it is aimed at working not only with children, but also with their parents. And this is very important for the family. In translation from Swedish "leko" means "toy", and "tek" from Greek means "meeting".

The Lecotheca Center is created for such children who do not have the opportunity, together with others, to attend schools or gardens. They need the help of a defectologist, speech therapist, psychologist. In addition, psychological and pedagogical support of the family is provided. For this purpose, special programs have been developed that take into account the specific features of the psychophysical development of children and their individual needs.

Service Features

It is necessary to emphasize that a lecoteka is being created for disabled children and those children who have various deviations in emotional, physical and mental condition. There is organized a space for children who have a delay in development, there is a special territory with many toys. The latter help develop visual and auditory perception, sensory and motor skills, and also activate cognitive processes. There is also a special music library, which is aimed at the comprehensive development of children. Many will argue that now there are many toys on sale, so it is not necessary to visit such institutions. However, most parents do not know what to do with such material.

History of the lekotek

In 1963 the described structure began to operate in Switzerland. In Russia, it arose only in 2001. Today in Moscow is one of the largest units. It should be noted that there is a lecoteka in the DOW and as a separate unit. It arose in connection with the problems that exist today. Every year the number of disabled children is growing. In many regions of our country, unfortunately, there are no units that could perform such functions. If children with cerebral palsy are now paying attention, then those who have problems with sight and hearing, have nowhere to go. There are practically no specialists. It is not enough to work alone with a defectologist or speech therapist. In order to help such babies, it is necessary to create a set of measures that will be aimed at helping a child who has a delay in physical or mental development.

Features of classes in the center

Children who have problems intellectually, mentally and physically, will be greatly assisted by a lekoteka. What is it, for what age is it calculated? One-year-old baby can start classes in similar centers. Here the space is organized correctly, all the toys are aimed at the development of the child. Physicians of narrow specialization work: narcologist, psychotherapist, social pedagogue, teacher-organizer, psychologist and others. At a certain time, parents and their babies come to the center, where specialists teach them how to properly develop children and play with them.

At the end of the course, participants are given benefits for homework. After the child returns to class. If necessary, an additional course is created. Specialists are trained in Moscow. There they are explained how the lekoteka works, what it is like to properly organize the comprehensive development and support of children and their families.

Basic concepts

The lecoteka for disabled children has a basic idea. It is to teach kids to correctly contact the world around them with the help of early childhood games. Special technologies are being created that are adapted to their capabilities. They learn to play, to perceive the world and phenomena in it, and also to react to what is happening around. Elizabeth Newson - a British psychologist - set out some theoretical bases. She published a book "Toys and Toys", in which she actively discusses the theme of the game and its impact on overall development and personality formation.

Formation of service in the pre-school

In many preschool institutions in our country begins to function as a lekoteka. What it is, already knows a lot of families who have children with disabilities. Here, a special selection of toys that take into account all the needs of the baby.

Specialists are very carefully working to ensure that all products have the required communication, physical, intellectual and sensory characteristics.

Today, you can often meet children who have a lack of attention. They have signs of autism or hyperactivity. For them, all the characteristics in the toy must be carefully balanced. Excellent fit radio-controlled models. They are very simple to use, visually and with the help of sounds stimulate the baby and suggest how to act. Such material makes it possible to very simply establish cause-effect relationships, learn to navigate in space and operate with the concepts "right-left", "back-forward". Soon the baby begins to understand the relationship "over-under".

It is important to note that in the process of playing the child develops a small motor skills of his fingers, he learns to plan his actions correctly. The result is immediately processed, the object is tracked and attention is focused on the correctness of its movements.

Thus, we see that the lekoteka, programs aimed at the universal development of children with disabilities, is an excellent means of providing assistance not only to babies, but also to their parents, because most often in similar situations adults do not know how to properly deal with their child , How to adapt it to real life.