Abstract:

The world is undergoing rapid and continuous changes, driven by globalization processes, advances in IT technologies, social activity, political changes, and other factors. These changes affect all areas of life, including child development, health and education. For many different reasons, the number of children with various developmental disabilities and difficulties in the educational process is increasing in educational institutions at all levels. The need for special education teachers, speech therapists, psychologists and other specialists to provide assistance in the functioning of the institution's support system, in order to implement the nationally mandated inclusive education process, has grown dramatically in educational institutions. For teachers and professionals, this necessitates the need to learn about the best global practices to reduce developmental disabilities and difficulties and to develop/acquire new technologies and methods.

In the early days of mankind, reckoning with Nature and its processes was crucial to human survival. Science has its origins in the person's ability to observe, systematize and explain what happens in nature, developing an understanding and coping with environmental challenges. Nowadays, humanity is facing a new challenge - how to reconcile the dynamic growth of the world with the personal/community/state/individual emergence, while at the same time preserving Nature for future generations.

The method of environmental aesthetics has been developed over 30 years and is based on experience by observing processes in nature, recording specific changes in children's perception due to the volume of information provided by screens, the increase in consequences and complications caused by adult overwork, etc. The latest research findings in the natural sciences, medicine, quantum physics, anthropology, neuroscience and epigenetics provide theoretical support for the effectiveness of the method in addressing the aforementioned matters. The author of the method is Diana Timofejeva. The method consists of 4 main areas - Natural Movement and Shape Games, Coloured Sand Games, Coloured Grain Games, and Work with Warm Sand in the WARMSANDBOX® warm sand equipment. The equipment is patented, its safety is certified by the European Union Certificate of Conformity and Safety. The method of environmental aesthetics offers a new/innovative way to promote physical recovery and emotional balance through a range of accessible and creative techniques. It is a learning system that organizes emotional and cognitive experiences and is based on the aesthetic values of the natural environment, movement algorithm in exercises and a cyclical methodology.

The research aim is to analyze the possibilities and results of the application of the method of environmental aesthetics to reduce children's developmental disorders and difficulties, based on 30 years of experience.

Research methods: analysis of scientific literature, analysis and interpretation of documents and materials.

The research concluded that the method of environmental aesthetics is an effective support tool for professionals in various fields, providing assistance in children's physical and emotional self-regulation processes and preventing emotional, learning, sleep, behavioral disorders. It is recommended for children with excessive sensitivity, communication difficulties, children with autism spectrum disorders.

Keywords:

Child development, developmental disabilities, inclusive education process, method of environmental aesthetics, special education.