Pedagogical technologies of work with preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders

The article is devoted to the substantiation of pedagogical technologies of work with preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders, psychological and pedagogical support of the family raising a child with such a diagnosis. The problem of autism spectrum disorders among preschool children is currently one of the most significant, since it hinders the full development of the child’s communication and social skills, his social mobility. All children with autism spectrum disorder have systemic mental development disorders that negatively affect the intellectual, personal and affective-volitional spheres. In addition, they react very painfully to changes, they are characterized by stereotypical forms of behavior that allow them to maintain the constancy and stability of the surrounding world. In this regard, autism is currently one of the important social problems affecting various segments of the population. According to global statistics, more than nineteen million people on the planet are currently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. At the same time, just a few decades ago, out of ten thousand people, only one was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, but annually this figure increases by an average of about fifteen percent. In some countries, there are significantly more children with this diagnosis, for example, in China it reaches up to twenty percent. Thus, we can conclude that currently every hundredth inhabitant of the planet suffers from autism spectrum disorders. The article discusses psychological and pedagogical technologies for working with children with ASD in the modern educational space.