2020 Issue №4

Federal standards, developed for students with special educational needs, have secured a differentiated approach as one of the most important postulates. In practice, when assessing the educational results of students with disabili­ties, teachers are faced with many problematic situations. Adaptation of such programs involves certain alignment, and a special evaluation system, which considers the specifics of the mental operations, perception, memory, develop­ment of speech functions, the pace of educational activity, as well as the specif­ic educational capacities of each specific child. The article focuses on the poten­tial use of rating in lessons and in extracurricular activities in primary-school classes, where students with severe visual impairments are taught in adapted programs. The study concludes it is necessary to develop a system of condi­tions as part of a rating model for the development of adapted programs for students with visual impairments starting from the first year of study.

The research is devoted to identifying the specifics of professional and non-professional psychological assistance provided in Instagram. The authors carried out content analysis of the accounts of 50 bloggers, 25 of whom are professional psychologists and 25 parapsychologists working on the Instagram every day. Each blogger has from 19,000 to 2,500,000 subscribers. The study identified and qualitatively analyzed certain types of psychological assistance: psychological information, individual consultations and online group train­ings, feedback is provided in the accounts of both groups. The Mann-Whitney U-test was used to assess differences in the indicators of these groups. The quality and scale of psychological care provided by professional psychologists and parapsychologists differed significantly. The research considered strengths and weaknesses of the implemented psychological assistance. It is noted that when organizing psychological assistance in Instagram, the follow­ing methods of psychotherapy and psychological counseling are most widely used: cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, body-oriented therapy, Gestalt ther­apy, NLP, family system therapy, art therapy, some psychologists practice certain hypnosis techniques, a third of psychologists include an esoteric framework in their work. Instagram users are more interested in the work of professional psychologists than parapsy­chologists. The results confirm the huge demand for psychological knowledge and confirm the urgency of the cor­rect and corrective psychological support in the Internet.