Uchashchiesya s zaderzhkoy psikhicheskogo razvitiya nuzhdayutsya v adaptatsii v obshchestve i v uluchshenii umstvennoy deyatel'nosti i rechi. Krome togo, ikh fiziologicheskie adaptivnye mekhanizmy podvergayutsya sushchestvennym napryazheniyam. Ustanovleno, chto organizm cheloveka obladaet bol'shimi prisposobitel'nymi vozmozhnostyami k usloviyam i spetsifike trudovoy deyatel'nosti, ekologicheskoy obstanovki, a takzhe vozdeystviyu razlichnykh stressovykh faktorov. Dannaya kniga vklyuchaet obshchuyu chast', osveshchayushchuyu metodicheskie aspekty, ikh psikhologo-fiziologicheskoe obosnovanie, i chastnye razdely, gde rassmatrivaetsya primenenie metoda korrektsii. Monografiya rasschitana na studentov pedagogicheskogo, biologichesko¬go i meditsinskogo profilya i dlya spetsialistov v oblasti korrektsionnoy pedagogiki.