The textbook in a single complex examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the special education of children with speech impairments, intellectual development, visual impairments, hearing impairments, musculoskeletal disorders, emotional, complex and behavioral disorders. Particular attention is paid to the organization and content of correctional education - pedagogical work, reveals methods, forms and means of psychological and pedagogical influence and assistance to children with various developmental disabilities. Natalya Yurievna Boryakova – Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Special Psychology and Clinical Foundations of Defectology, Moscow State Humanitarian University. M.A. Sholokhov, the author of numerous works on the problems of teaching and raising children with developmental disabilities. The manual is intended for students of defectology and psychological faculties, practicing psychologists, defectologists, teachers, as well as parents.