Sensory World at Your Fingertips

The article presents a program, the development of which is due to the originality of the emotional-volitional sphere, character, sensory experience of visually impaired and blind students. The program is aimed at reducing psycho-emotional stress, teaching children the skills of psychological self-regulation in a sensory room. A sensory room for a visually impaired and blind child gives an opportunity for the student to mitigate or eliminate their internal problems. Periodic visits by students with visual impairments to the sensory room allows solving the problems of preventing difficulties in learning, upbringing and socialization, deviations in the development and behavior of students. The effectiveness of this program was monitored according to diagnostic data based on the developed criteria before and after the trainees completed the cycle of classes. The implementation of the program revealed a positive trend in personal and social results.

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