Anastasiya R. Zaitseva, first-year Master’s student in Counseling Psychology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, High School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Lyudmila N. Kuleshova, Dr. Sci. (Psychology), Prof., Prof. at Psychological and Pedagogical Education chair, Russian New University, Moscow, Russia.
Nataliya A. Peshkova, Cand. Sci. (Psychology), Assoc. Prof. at Psychology for Special Needs chair, Tyla State Pedagogical University after L. N. Tolstoy, Tula, Russia.

The study of the communicative competence of older teenagers with hearing difficulties is a painful problem. During the period of adolescence interpersonal communication becomes a flagship activity in which young people learn standards of interaction, shape individual models of behavior and communication. Due to hearing disorders, the development of communication and a feeling of being a subject of communication in society become compromised. It is diagnostics and subsequent correction of communicative competence that greatly contribute to further social adjustment within the society. The examination of communicative competence of adolescents encompasses three components: emotional-motivational – the need for contacts, motives, attitudes, goals and personal values; cognitive – psychological knowledge of interpersonal communication, the image of an interlocutor as communication partner; behavioral – individual patterns of behavior and control. The results of the study showed that the communicative competence of teenagers with haring difficulties is at a medium level of development or lower. One can also observe the decreased levels of empathy, communicative control, the need for communication. These adolescents exhibit poor communicative skills and aptitudes, a high level of emotional barriers in the course of interpersonal interaction. The correction-and-development program designed and implemented by the authors made it possible to improve all indicators under study.

Zaitseva AR, Kuleshova LN, Peshkova NA. The Development of Communicative Competence in Adolescents with Hearing Impairments by Dance Therapy. In: Perelygina EB, Zotova OYu, Drozdova AV, Tarasova LV. (eds.) Wellbeing and Security in the Face of Social Transformations: Collection of academic papers from the 10th International Symposium (Yekaterinburg, July 9–10, 2019). Yekaterinburg: Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities; 2019. p. 135–144. Available from: doi:10.35853/LAU.WS.2019.SP14.

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