THE STUDY OF SENSORIMOTOR REACTIONS IN CHILDREN IN PRENATAL ONTOGENESIS USING THE INTERACTIVE MUSICAL BELT «MAMATONIC»

Lazarev Mikhail Lvovich

Problem. The birth of premature babies (including those with extremely low body weight), their care and development are one of the most urgent tasks not only in pediatrics, but also in psychology and pedagogy. This is due to the peculiarities of the psychological and pedagogical support of such children in all subsequent periods of childhood ontogenesis. It is also known that sensory influx (Malyarenko T.N.) contributes to the regulation of the development of the central nervous system at an early age, and that one of the most effective sensory stimuli for the development of the central nervous system is sound. Goal. Creation of technology for sensory support of child development in prenatal ontogenesis to optimize its development. Methodology. Two phases of the pilot study were conducted. The first stage is a comparative study of the "Sonatal" and "Preloning" methods. As part of the Sonatal method, the Mamatonic – voice module (the natural voice-tactile module "Sounding Mother") was developed, providing audio-tactile confirmation of the motor activity of a prenatal child using the mother's voice and her touch in the abdomen, adequate to the child's movements in place (the height of the voice response), quantity, tempo and the power (volume of the voice) of these touches. At the second stage of the study, the Mamatonic Belt module, developed within the framework of the Sonatal method, was tested - an interactive musical belt for prenatal development of children, allowing both a pregnant woman and her prenatal child to make musical sounds. The Mamatonic Belt module is an electronic technology, which is a system of sensors integrated into the belt, connected by electronic equipment, reproducing sounds when both the prenatal child touches the anterior abdominal wall from the inside and the mother from the outside. Results. At the first stage of the study, it was found that prenatal children have biorhythmic activity (stirring before the session — from 20 to 70% of children); hear (turn to dynamics — from 9 to 60% of children); c) have communicative activity (stirring during the session — from 62.5 to 88.3% of children); have a sense of rhythm (synchronous movement with rhythm (always or often) — from 37.5 to 66.8% of children). At the second stage of the study, the approbation of the "Mamatonic belt" technology demonstrated the presence of prenatal communication in the "mother-fetus" dyad. Conclusion. The results obtained during the study confirm the presence of mental processes in a prenatal child, opening up wide opportunities for creating various systems of sensory support for the development of a child before birth, while maintaining complete safety from their use.

Keywords:sensory influx, "Sonatal" method, "Preloning" method, voice-tactile mammatonic, belt for pregnant woman, electronic mammatonic, premature baby, sensory support of prenatal development.