V knige rassmotreny sovremennye predstavleniya o kommunikativnoy deyatel"nosti, vozrastnykh osobennostyakh ee formirovaniya v ontogeneze i v usloviyakh rechevogo dizontogeneza. Predstavleny teoreticheskoe i metodologicheskoe obosnovanie, organizatsiya i rezul"taty eksperimental"nogo izucheniya sostoyaniya kommunikativnoy deyatel"nosti uchashchikhsya starshikh klassov s tyazhelymi narusheniyami rechi (dizartriya, rinolaliya, zaikanie i dr.), osobennostey ikh lichnostnogo razvitiya kak sub"ektov obshcheniya. Kniga adresovana uchitelyam-logopedam, pedagogam, spetsial"nym psikhologam, spetsialistam drugikh obrazovatel"nykh i reabilitatsionnykh uchrezhdeniy dlya detey i podrostkov s narusheniyami rechi. Materialy issledovaniya mogut byt" polezny studentam defektologicheskogo fakul"teta, spetsialistam po sotsial"noy rabote.