CO-EXISTENCE OF PARTICULAR AREAS IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY AGE – RISK AND PROTECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

The aim of the research: provide empirical evidence of overlapping of developmental domains, with regard not only to the strong highlighted comorbidity of neurodevelopmental disorders, difficulties and delays in preschool age, rather to highpoint overlapping in view of major everyday activities of the children; strengths in order to find and support the gifts of the child, so that stimulating activities and games in the kindergarten and the family environment maximized the child's developmental potential. By using the IDS-P (Krejčířová, 2018) 39 children in Slovak kindergartens was tested, by data collection in direct personal contact. The aim covers the correlations of the measured areas, identification of predictors of the domain cognition, which proved to be the most saturating the Global developmental level. The output was a stepwise linear regression model that identified three indicators from the field of social-emotional and personality development: tenacity of effort, delayed reward and social-emotional competence, the impact of which is statistically significant and explains almost 50% of the variability of the developmental level of cognition. Based on the provided empirical evidence, we can assume that the developmental level of cognition reflects the support and building of competences in these areas, which is the basis of pre-academic and later academic skills.