Abstract:

Personality formation of students with cerebral palsy is greatly influenced by the specificity of their self-awareness of impairment and personal response to existing developmental disorder. Self-awareness of impairment is understood by us as the image of pathology existing in the individual’s perception and his emotions about it.
Different alternatives of personal reaction to the existing developmental disorder can lead to developing inferiority complex, low self-esteem, low level of aspirations, as well as cause some compensatory activity, which is the source and an important condition of successful socialization.
1. The article presents theoretical analysis of research in special psychology on the problem of self-consciousness of students with disabilities.
2. The article provides grounds for construction and application of the diagnostic model (developed by the author) for verifying the types of personal response to existing disorder of students with different types of developmental disabilities, that can be applied to children with cerebal palsy.
3. It also summarizes all the obtained results of an experimental study of the personal response to motor impairment of adolescents with cerebral palsy: the types of the self-awareness are identified, their representation is established, the specific features of the structural components of each type of personal response to motor disorder are identified and characterized.
4. There is an established relationship between self-awareness and perception of existing disorders of the locomotor system, characteristics of personal development and behavior of adolescents with cerebral palsy.
5. Mechanisms and conditions of development of the personal response to an existing developmental disorder were studied. In particular, the influence of defense mecanisms and the severity of motor impairment factors on the occurrence of self-awareness types.
The results of the research presented in the article determine the socio-psychological conditions for the prevention and reformation of unsuccesful types of response in terms of personal development and social adaptation.

Keywords:

Personal response to a developmental disorder, self-awareness, self-awareness of impairment, cerebral palsy, children with developmental disabilities.