The manual presents the content and methodological methods of correctional work on the formation of coherent speech of preschool children with general speech underdevelopment, as well as correctional and pedagogical technologies for examining the level of formation of coherent speech and the formation of skills of coherent statements in children, tested by the author in an experimental study and in the practice of speech therapy work with ONR. Methodological material is given for conducting speech therapy and correctional classes on the formation of coherent speech. The methodology for a comprehensive study of coherent speech of children, psycholinguistic assessment of the level of formation of skills of coherent statements, methodological methods of corrective training can be used in the practice of speech therapy.The manual is intended for students of defectological faculties (faculties of special pedagogy) of pedagogical and humanitarian universities and used in the study of the academic discipline "Methods for the development of speech of persons with disabilities" (module "Methods for the development of speech of preschoolers and schoolchildren with systemic speech disorders").