Saratov Speech Therapy School: Origins and Current Directions of Research
Authors:   Saratov State University, Kryuchkov Vladimir P. , Konstantinova Olga A. ,   Saratov State University, Esipova Tatyana V. ,   Saratov State University
Published: December 2023

To the statement of the problem. The article represents the origins and current state of research, scientific, methodological, and educational activities of the Department of Speech Therapy and Psycholinguistics of Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky – Saratov speech therapy school. The purpose of the article is to reflect on the process of formation, the origins of the Saratov speech therapy school and the directions of modern scientific research of teachers of the department of speech therapy and psycholinguistics. Main content – the definitions and characteristics of the concept of a scientific school are clarified, including a university scientific school in connection with the topic of the article; the origins of the Saratov speech therapy school in the field of medicine, speech therapy, linguistics and psycholinguistics are considered, the scientific heritage of SSU scientists is considered, whose works played a significant role in the formation of the Saratov psycholinguistic school – L. P. Doblaeva on the semantic structure of the educational text and I. N. Gorelov on the relationship between verbal and nonverbal components of speech and the universal subject code; analyzes the contribution to the formation of the department of speech therapy and psycholinguistics by V. I. Balaeva, who took an active part in the creation of the department, an authoritative teacher, methodologist, scientist, author of the method of model training for older preschoolers with delayed speech development, and K. F. Sedov, the first head of the department of speech therapy and psycholinguistics, the author of scientific and scientific-methodological works on general psycholinguistics, ontolinguistics in the aspect of the development of human communicative competence, and the theory of genres – henistics, which has become a distinctive feature of the Saratov psycholinguistic school; The main directions of activity of the department at present are characterized – linguistic and speech therapy, research in the field of communicative linguistics, psycholinguistic research, research in the field of bilingualism and bilingual education, research in the field of medical speech therapy, and the significant works of teachers of the department of speech therapy and psycholinguistics are given in this regard. In conclusion, further prospects for the development of the department of speech therapy and psycholinguistics in the scientific, scientific-methodological, educational field are determined, it is noted that the linguistic, psycholinguistic, ontolinguistic components in the work of the department are supported by close cooperation with other departments of Saratov University, with leading speech therapy departments in Moscow and St. Petersburg , a number of other universities, there is an active involvement and familiarization of bachelors and masters in the scientific traditions of the Saratov speech therapy school.