Objective: The aim is to analyze the current problems in communicative development of children with special educational needs.
Patients and methods: Materials and methods: The research used a number of scientific methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization), historical, specific research, comparative-historical, and others, which ensured the selection and analysis of the source base, made it possible to determine the general trends in the study of the problem of the communicative development of the child, the achievements of Ukrainian and foreign scientists in the field of research on the language of children with special educational needs, to distinguish the common and the different in the scientific research of scientists.
Conclusion: Conclusions: Updated studies of scientists from Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Britain and other countries testify that communication skills are key in the language development of a preschool child, they form the basis without which the child's further education, socialization, etc. are impossible. Meanwhile, there is no unity among scientists in their views on the nature of language disorders and their classification. The contribution of domestic and foreign authors to the study of the communicative development of a child with speech difficulties is singled out.
Keywords: general underdevelopment of speech; speech defects; speech therapy; communicative development; diagnosis; inclusion; preschool children; special educational needs.