ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a narrower class of active games that develop action by instructions. It also focuses on the development of phonological processing, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and verbal memory. Processing auditory information contributes to the enrichment of speech and is necessary for the prevention of dyslexia. The chapter examines games that develop visual-spatial functions: body schema, left-right orientation, use of "spatial" words and construction. The foundation of successful learning is willingness to participate in the following of social demands and good development of cognitive functions. In developing the individualized educational program for such children it is important to remember that delays in phonological processing and phonemic awareness are accompanied as a rule by poor vocabulary and poor short-term verbal memory. The chapter describes why games are necessary for child development and how games contribute to the formation of executive functions, auditory analysis and visual-spatial functions.
