Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №8 2017, pp.50-52

PhD, Associate Professor N.A. Boyko¹
PhD, Associate Professor V.N. Boyko^1
1Surgut State Pedagogical University, Surgut

Subject to the study were the classified psychophysical conditions of the mentally retarded senior schoolchildren. The study overviewed the special physical education methods applied for a school year in the physical education classes to correct the psychophysical conditions of the mentally retarded senior schoolchildren. The study team designed a set of exercises to correct the movement coordination, spatial and temporal perceptions, balancing, minor motor and movement rhythm control skills, plus the subjects’ simple and complex reactions to light and sound.
Prior to the experiment, the subjects were the most retarded in the simple and complex sensorimotor reactions i.e. differentiated responses to visual and audible signals, with some of the tests designed to rate the spatial and temporal perceptions of the subjects. In the prior fact-finding study stage, the psychophysical conditions in both the Study and Reference Groups were tested as low i.e. seriously retarded – that means that the subjects were tested with the poor attention focusing and perception rates.
Based on the prior fact-finding study data, we developed and implemented a special physical education model to correct the psychophysical conditions of the mentally retarded senior schoolchildren. The final psychophysical condition rating tests showed a meaningful progress of the Study Group children that was interpreted as indicative of the physical education model benefits.

Keywords: psychophysical condition, correction, mentally retarded students, means of physical culture.

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