THE ANALYSIS OF POSSIBLE REASONS FOR DISORDERS OF COHERENT SPEECH DEVELOPMENT IN FIRST-YEAR SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH THE HELP OF EYE TRACKING
This work presents our experience of using computerized oculometry (eye tracking) in psychological and educational checkup of the 1st year schoolchildren of state school №197 of the Central district, Saint Petersburg. The examination was a part of an experimental work of the child neurological clinic “Prognoz”. The work was aimed at revealing psycho-physiological factors of decreasing learning abilities of children without developmental abnormalities. 32 children, 19 boys, 13 girls (average age 7.5) were examined. The children were offered to make a story using a series of three pictures. Firstly, a child was asked to put pictures on the table one after another. After that, the pictures were gradually shown on the screen, the child was telling what was happening on the pictures. Oculomotor activity of the child was registered using EyegazeAnalysisSystem. It was found that 15 children were not able to make a coherent story, while 12 of them, according to the EyegazeAnalysisSystem protocol, did not have gaze fixations at elements of pictures important for making a story. The use of the equipment evaluation of eye movements allowed to differentiate possible reasons why the test subjects did not manage to do the task. The results obtained require further study. Perhaps the inability of the child to notice an image that was not in the center of the picture reflects the tendency to narrow the visual field, the lack of an active internal search and motivation for it.