Abstract
Annotation.The relevance of this article is due to the interests of the scientific and practical community to the problem of speech development in pre-school children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) usng various methods, tools and techniques.The article is aimed at uncovering and visually showing the results of experimental work by means of methods of didactic maps (pictogram) to develop speech of pre-school children with ASD.The authors tested the program of speech development by means of didactic maps (pictogram) with children of pre-school age with ASD.The study was based on a theoretical analysis that included historical, comparative and systemic analysis; the experimental part of the research was defined by three (observation, formative and controlling) stages of experiment with the application of empirical methods (observation, questionnaires, testing).The results of the research work showed that preschool children with ASD had issues in the sphere of communication with others, which affected oral communication.This article is intended for researchers in the field of science and practising professionals both psychologists and defectologists engaged in speech development problems of pre-school children with ASD.