Software Development for the Correction of Various Aspects of Children's Oral and Written Speech (Based on Latin Alphabet)

This paper presents the main stages of software development in different aspects of children's oral and written speech. The program enables to work with a wide range of speech units from sound to text, to solve various surdologopedic tasks: from adjusting speech breathing, voice and pronunciation to the development of the lexical and grammatical aspect of speech. The software scope of the tasks to be solved includes game moments in the process of correcting speech deficiencies, multiple playback of the necessary type of exercises and speech activities, work at different levels of complexity depending on student's abilities along with the speech therapy that develops perception, attention and memory. When creating the program, the psychological features and visual perception of children with speech deficiencies as well as the locomotive system and intellectual disorders were taken into account. The program contains an entertaining plot based on the national features. The software development is based on Adobe Flash technology, which is a powerful tool with great potential in terms of creating large and functional applications.