Uchebnoe posobie soderzhit svedeniia o nasledstvennykh formakh narushenii razvitiia, obuslovlivaiushchikh osobye obrazovatelnye potrebnosti u detei. A imenno, o nasledstvennykh formakh intellektualnykh, rechevykh, sensornykh narushenii, rasstroistvakh emotcionalno-volevoi sfery i povedeniia, funktcii oporno-dvigatelnogo apparata. Posobie adresovano studentam-bakalavram pedagogicheskikh vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii i spetcialistam, rabotaiushchim v oblasti korrektcionnoi pedagogiki i spetcialnoi psikhologii. Soderzhit illiustratcii, terminologicheskii slovar, spisok istochnikov literatury, voprosy i zadaniia dlia samoproverki i samostoiatelnoi raboty.