Theoretical aspects of the formation of functional literacy in children with disabilities

Abstract

This article is devoted to the definition of the concept of "functional literacy", components of functional literacy. The article discusses the problems that hinder the formation of functional literacy in modern schoolchildren, including children with developmental disabilities. Trends of the modern education system towards achieving the subject results of schoolchildren, and not the formation of the ability to use these results in life. These problems are connected with modern educational and social trends, with other ways of information orientation of students, with the peculiarities of their psychophysical development.