Lekoteka - what is it? Center "Lekoteka"

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Many parents, having heard 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 they do not know how to teach them and how to develop them correctly. Unfortunately, few people know that the lekotheka solves such problems. What is it, how does it affect the development of the child?

Definition of concept

Lekoteka is a service that provides early psychological and educational assistance to those children who have disabilities.

What is unique is that it aims to work not only with children, but also with their parents. And this is very important for the family. In Swedish, "leko" means "toy" and "tek" in Greek means "assembly."

The Lekoteka Center is created for those children who do not have the opportunity to attend schools or kindergartens with others. They need the help of a defectologist, a speech therapist,psychologist. In addition, psychological and pedagogical support for the family is provided. To this end, special programs have been developed that take into account the peculiarities of the psychophysical development of children and their individual needs.

Service Features

It should be emphasized that a lekoteka is being created for disabled children and those kids who have various deviations in their emotional, physical and mental state. There is a space for children who have a developmental delay, there is a special area 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 there are a lot of toys on sale now, so it’s not at all necessary to visit such institutions. However, most parents do not know what to do with such material.

History of the Lecotheque

In 1963, the described structure began to operate in Switzerland. In Russia, it appeared only in 2001. Today, one of the largest divisions is located in Moscow. It should be noted that there is a lekoteka in the preschool educational institution as a separate independent unit. It arose in connection with the problems that exist today. Every year the number of children with disabilities is growing. In many regions of our country, unfortunately, there are no units that could perform such functions. If children with cerebral palsy nowpay attention, then those who have problems with vision and hearing have nowhere to go. There are practically no specialists. Lessons alone with a defectologist or speech therapist are not enough.

In order to help such kids, it is necessary to create a set of measures that will be aimed at helping a child with a delay in physical or mental development.

Features of classes at the center

Children who have problems in the intellectual, mental and physical terms, the Lekoteka will provide significant assistance. What is it, for what age is it designed? Already a one-year-old baby can start classes in such centers. Here the space is organized correctly, all toys are aimed at the development of the child. Doctors of narrow specialization work: narcologist, psychotherapist, social pedagogue, teacher-organizer, psychologist and others. At a certain time, parents come with their babies to the center, where experts teach them how to properly develop children and play with them.

At the end of the course, participants are given homework aids. After the child returns to classes. If necessary, an additional course is created. Specialists are trained in Moscow.

They explain to them how the lekoteka works, what it is, how to properly organize the comprehensive development and support of children and their families.

Basic concepts

Lekoteka for disabled children has a basic idea. It lies in the fact that with the help of the game at an early ageteach kids how to interact with the world around them. Special technologies are being created that are adapted to their capabilities. They learn to play, perceive the world and phenomena in it, and also correctly respond to what is happening around. Elizabeth Newson - British psychologist - outlined some of the theoretical foundations. She published the book "Toys and Toys", in which she actively discusses the topic of the game and its influence on the overall development and formation of the personality.

Formation of service in the preschool educational institution

In many preschool institutions of our country, a lekoteka begins to function. What it is, already knows many families who have children with disabilities. Toys are specially selected here, taking into account all the needs of the baby.

Specialists work very carefully to ensure that all products have the required communicative, physical, intellectual and sensory characteristics.

Today you can often meet children who have an attention deficit. They show signs of autism or hyperactivity. For them, all the characteristics in the toy must be carefully balanced. Radio controlled models are perfect. They are very easy to use, visually and with the help of sounds stimulate the baby and suggest how to act. Such material makes it very easy to establish cause-and-effect relationships, teaches you to navigate in space and operate with the concepts of “right-left”, “back-forward”. Soon the baby begins to understand the relationship "over-under".

It is important to note that inDuring the game, the child develops fine motor skills of the fingers, learns to plan their 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 that are aimed at the general development of children with disabilities, is an excellent tool to help not only kids, but also their parents, because most often in such situations, adults do not know how properly deal with your child, how to adapt it to real life.