The specifics of anticipatory consistency in children with speech pathology

The article looks into the specifics of the interrelationship between the anticipatory specifics of mental activity and general speech underdevelopment, which reveal a major deviation of children's anticipatory consistency indicators from the age-related norm and are made evident in the fact that the adequate event forecasting ability in this category of children gets formed more slowly, with lots of "distraction errors" occurring and irrational strategies employed along the way. Research findings enrich our comprehension of psychological regularities of the mental development of speech with a notion of a necessary part played in this process by anticipatory abilities, thus contributing to the developmental psychology theory. A special study has revealed that the specifics of anticipatory activity reflected in the falling of indicators of the personalsituational and temporal components of anticipatory consistency can be behind pre-morbid neurotic alertness in children with general speech underdevelopment, which is deemed of significance to medical psychology. © IDOSI Publications, 2013