Biography of speech therapists

The honorary sign “For excellent successes in the work” in the field of higher education of the USSR Larisa Stepanovna Volkova is a domestic speech therapist and organizer of higher defectological education, doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, honored science of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education, an honorary professor of the RSU A.

Volkov was born on May 30 of year in the Tomsk region. In the year, having graduated from high school, Larisa Stepanovna entered the defectology faculty of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute of the LGPI - now the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. already during the years of student, its extraordinary energy and active life position were manifested.

Doing public work, she headed the Committee of the Komsomol of the Institute, became a noticeable and respected person among students and teachers of the institute. A large role in the formation of Larisa Stepanovna as a scientist was played by her teachers and, above all, the head of the Department of the SurDopedagogy of the LGPI named after A. Herzen Mikhail Efimovich Khgatsev Herzen was enrolled in the staff of the department of the Surdopedagogiki, and in the year, together with her husband - a naval officer, military doctor, she left for the place of his service in Latvia, to the city of Latvian SSR.

There, L. Volkova worked as a teacher at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Latvian State Pedagogical Institute named after Latsis, and since the year she became the head of the Department of Pedagogy of Primary School in the LGPI named after Latsis. In the year, she defended her thesis dedicated to the problem of eliminating tongue -ties in primary school children.

By this time, Larisa Stepanovna was already the author of a large number of scientific and scientific-methodical works, gained the fame of the scientist, the head of the teaching staff and the organizer of the educational process. In the year, Larisa Stepanovna was awarded the title of associate professor. In the year, Alexander Dmitrievich Boborykin 7. Herzen, suggested L.

Volkova to head one of the oldest faculties of the institute - a defectology faculty, which she led for ten years. From the year he heads the Department of Psychopathology and Speech therapy.

From a year, he organizes the department of speech therapy and becomes its head. In the year, it defends a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Correction of oral violations in children with deep visual impairments." In the year, a professor was awarded. At the initiative of L. Volkova, the Institute opens the Scientific Council for the Protection of Candidate Dissertations for Defectological Specialties.

All -Union and international conferences are regularly held here, allowing scientists and teachers to introduce scientific and methodological developments into the theory and practice of defectology. A strong student asset is being created at the faculty, under the leadership of which the defectologist newspaper is produced, the student scientific society and the Search group are working, the main task of which is to restore the history of the faculty and preserve good memory about people who laid its foundations.

Volkova brought up pride in her faculty in the students of Defo; From the first year, they formed a sense of continuity of traditions, involvement in the history of Alma Mater. During the work of Larisa Stepanovna Dean, the defectology faculty firmly ranked first place in the LGPI in performance. The faculty has become unusually popular among applicants from different cities and regions of not only our country, but also from abroad.

In the year, on the initiative of Larisa Stepanovna Volkova, the department of speech therapy was opened at the Department of Psychopathology and speech therapy. It was a long -awaited event. Until that time, one of the most popular specializations of the faculty did not have an independent curriculum. Speech therapy was taught among the numerous disciplines of training of students of Surdo, Oligophreneno and Tiflo Departments.

In the year, the first release of speech therapists who graduated from the speech therapy department of the Faculty of LGPI named after A. since then for many years the specialty of a speech therapist has been one of the most demanded by applicants entering a pedagogical university. In the year, L. Volkova left the post of dean of the faculty and headed the department of psychopathology and speech therapy, from which the Department of Logopedics and the Department of the anatomical and physiological foundations of defectology were allocated in the year.

At this time, Larisa Stepanovna was actively working on a doctoral dissertation devoted to speech impairments in blind and visually impaired children, published scientific works, including in academic and foreign publications, was the initiator and organizer of scientific conferences, and was part of the editorial board of the journal Defectology.At the same time, she successfully led the department, whose team included such famous scientists and teachers, such as Raisa Ivanovna Lalaeva Larisa Stepanovna founded a new scientific field of research activity of the department of the department, dedicated to the study and correction of systemic speech disorders in children with violations of sensory, intellectual and motor development.

The field of activity of Larisa Stepanovna was not limited to the department. Herzen, a member of the Council of the Faculty and the Specialized Council, was part of the editorial board of the magazine "News of Otolaryngology and Logopathology", was the author and editor of the first fundamental textbook on speech therapy in the USSR. Since the year, she taught at the Leningrad State University now - Leningrad State University named after A.

Since the year at the Moscow Social and Humanitarian Institute. The scientific and practical contribution of Larisa Stepanovna Volkova to the training of professional personnel of speech therapists is unusually great. Thanks to her efforts, a textbook on the latest speech therapy, “Reader on the speech therapy”, “Axtreaming: Methodical Heritage”, whose authors included outstanding scientists of the St.

Petersburg and Moscow speech therapy schools were created. These textbooks are in great demand among students and teachers, they collect the most valuable information from the field of speech therapy, without the knowledge of which the professional formation of modern speech therapists is impossible. Larisa Stepanovna was awarded the Order of the "Sign of Honor"; medals "For Valiant Labor.

In marked the flight from the birthday, V. died Larisa Stepanovna on August 11.