Football training as a method to improve the psycho-emotional state of schoolchildren with mental development impairments

Abstract

The article presents the effectiveness assessment of the training activities programme material based on the author's programme of the Special Olympics Football. Positive changes in the psycho-emotional state of those engaged in football have been revealed. The data, obtained in the process of the pedagogical experiment, confirmed the effectiveness of the developed football training programme, since at the second stage of the consecutive experiment, there were significant differences (p <0.05) in the psycho-emotional state of the abovementioned category of persons. It was established that the issues of organizing and holding training sessions for people with similar problems should be controlled not only by checking the physical and technical preparedness level, but also by evaluating social skills and human relations as well as the psycho-emotional state level.