METHOD FOR ASSESSING SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF AN EARLY AGE CHILD Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to clinical psychology and correctional pedagogy, and can be used for evaluation of social behaviour of children of the first three years of life with nervous system diseases and psychosocial disabilities. Specialist by targeted effect of external stimuli and training makes the child following a certain mode of social behaviour in one of six psychological spheres in a certain sequence: first of all motion activity, then tactile, olfactory, visual perception, auditory perception and at last communicating with the help of voice and speech. In each of the spheres conditions are created first for occurrence of imitation, with no result conditions are created for occurrence of copying, then for appearance of sensor-motor imitation, then for occurrence of involuntary behaviour. Psychological spheres, stimuli and content of training, social behaviour, its qualitative characteristics in the form of description, as well as evaluation in points are fixed in a table. Examination result is calculated using mathematical formulae. On the basis of obtained results the conclusion is made that social behavior of the child is formed harmonically and can be in the future independently formed in all psychological spheres, or the conclusion is made that social behavior of the child is formed disharmoniously and for its occurrence in other psychological spheres special training conditions are required, or the conclusion is made that social behavior of the child is formed abnormally and for acquisition of more perfect social behaviour the child needs systematic complex rehabilitation.

EFFECT: method enables developing the criteria of social behaviour of a child in order to forecast the possibility of its improvement in the future due to observation of social behaviour of the child in various psychological spheres.

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