Abstract. In this article, rehabilitation of children with special needs and provision of correctional-pedagogical support to their parents in preparing them for school is one of the urgent problems of today. Currently, the issue of development, upbringing and education of mentally retarded children in auxiliary institutions is urgent. Attention to the problems of mental retardation is due to the fact that the number of people with this type of anomaly does not decrease. This situation puts the issue of creating conditions for maximum correction of developmental disorders in this pathology in the first place.