PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS-SPEECH THERAPISTS FOR PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of training future teachers-speech therapists for pedagogical activities in an inclusive educational environment. Modern approaches of scientists to the training of specialists in the field of special education and speech therapy in particular are considered. The purpose of the article is to identify and substantiate the main aspects of the preparation of future speech therapists for teaching in an inclusive environment of the educational institution. The main aspects of training specialists in the field of special education and the formation of professional competencies in future teachers-speech therapists focused on practical activities are analyzed. Professional competencies in research, viewed through the prism of inclusive processes in education, at the same time become important given that speech therapists in an inclusive environment work with other professionals as members of the team of psychological and pedagogical support. It is substantiated that the scientific achievements of scientists laid the theoretical and methodological basis for professional training of teachers for psychological and pedagogical interaction with children with special needs in educational institutions of various types and argued the urgent need for systematic professional and pedagogical training of future educators to work in inclusive education. It was found that the pedagogical activity of speech therapists in inclusive education has certain features, which requires strengthening the practice-oriented learning activities of future speech therapists (organization of practical work as tutors in the inclusive space of educational institutions and inclusive resource centers; inclusion in the educational program « Special Education «with the specialization» Speech Therapy «of the discipline» Speech Therapy Support of Inclusive Education of Children with Special Educational Needs «. It is established that the development of inclusive competence of future specialists in the field of speech therapy in the process of practical training expands the idea of possible ways to solve problems of inclusion and becomes one of the main areas of training speech therapists to work in modern conditions.