INFLUENCE OF TRAINING ON A STABILOMETRIC PLATFORM ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BALANCE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH MENTAL RETARDATION

Lagging in cognitive, psychomotor and functional development is observed in children with mental retardation. Training of the balance function promotes training of the central nervous, sensory and musculoskeletal systems in children with delayed mental development and is an important element of the physical culture program in inclusive education. The objective of the study is to assess the impact on the static balance function of an adapted physical education program for people with delayed mental development in inclusive education. The study was conducted on the basis of the secondary school of the Village of Sovkhoz imeni Lenina with inclusive education. Two groups were formed: a control group and an experimental group of 23 people each (25 boys and 21 girls altogether), with an average age of 9.7 ± 1.6 years. The equilibrium function and the quality of balance management were evaluated using the computer stabilography method. The survey was conducted twice at the beginning and at the end of the study. The experiment lasted six months. The children of the control and experimental groups studied according to the standard school program of V. I. Lyakh and A. A. Zdanevich (2018), but for the children of the experimental group, the physical culture program was adapted in accordance with the available nosology and included individual training on a stabilometric platform with biofeedback 3 times a week, for 30 minutes each. According to the results of the ascertaining study of the balance function and the quality of balance management, almost 70 % of the children in both groups had a pronounced violation of the balance function. The inclusion of individual training on a stabilometric platform with biofeedback improved the balance function and quality of balance in the children of the experimental group compared to the control group. They had less use of the visual analyzer and improved vestibular stability when performing the postural Romberg test.

mental retardation, balance function, individual training, biofeedback, physical education lessons, inclusive education, primary school children, static balance function, coordination abilities, rural school.

Potatuyev N. I., Bobkova S. N., Zvereva M. V., Matveev Yu. A. Influence of training on a stabilometric platform on the development of balance function in children with mental retardation. Business. Education. Law, 2021, no. 1, pp. 358—362. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2021.54.139.