A COMPARISON OF CONCEPT FORMATION PROCESS CARRIED OUT ON THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITH SPEECH DISORDER AND CHILDREN OF NORMAL SPEECH DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The aim of the research is to study the characteristics of mathematical concepts in older preschool-aged children (aged 5-6), with the established speech and language disorder (articulation disorder, a disorder in the pace of speech – stuttering and combined disorder – in which the stuttering connects with a slightly pronounced underde-

veloped speech). An experimentally study was performed on a sample of 300 children who attended preschool in Sremska Mitrovica, Ruma, Sid and Apatin. The experimental group consisted of 150 children. It was found and de-

termined that these children had speech disorders or speech impediments, but whom in all other respects had a typical development. The control group also consisted of 150 children identified as having a normal speech devel- opment. Previously specially trained teachers or educators inflicted the children to solve mathematical tasks in the following fields: terms about numbers, size, shape, space and time.

The research results, obtained on the basis of descriptive statistical analysis and application of the chi- square test showed that there were statistically significant differences in solving mathematical problems between the two groups of children leading to the fact that children with speech disorders achieved poor quality results. Qualita- tive analysis of the data in this paper was focused on ways of solving mathematical problems of the two groups of children and the search for the causes of the difficulties that arise in children with the disorder in speech during op- eration of mathematical knowledge, skills and habits.