Abstract:
Establishing contacts with the grown - ups is offundamental significance
in the process of initiating and consolidating children activities. This becomes of special
importance ifwe have to do with the child considerably and deeply retaroed.
The author tries to reveal in what the repressed activities ofthe retarded child make
it difficult to establish contacts with his objective and social environment. Great
possibilities in this domain have been opened by the movement developed with the
methods ofV. Sherborne. where the adult together with the child do exercises which
stimulate to be active even deeply handicaped chi Id in psychic and motorial spheres.
The empirical material has been collected from observations carried in the center for
mentally retaroed girls who took part in the training sessions conducted with V.
Sherborne methods.
