The main condition for admission to the magistracy is the presence of an already completed higher education in a bachelor's or specialist's program (for example, in a specialty).
You must submit a written interdisciplinary exam in defectology, pass an oral interview.
Full-time education will meet the 2-year period, part-time and part-time extramural require 2.5 years of training.
A specialist-defetologist carries a great social burden and is very useful for society, combining the activities of a teacher, a psychologist, and partly a physician. It is worth paying attention to the specialty to persons capable of dedication.
Brief description of the specialty
Defectology is divided into several areas: work with children and persons with impaired vision, hearing, speech, intelligence or physical health. A specialist can advise children with mild disabilities, put speech and phonetics, or can choose complex cases and people who will need to be accompanied all their lives.
Benefits of a Master's Degree
The specialty is heuristic and scientific-practical, research is very important to her. In the magistracy, they will teach methodology and theory of research. Ideas about the correction and the causes of health deviations are constantly changing, so constant training should accompany the teacher-defectologist.
Major universities in Moscow
Good specialists produce:
- Moscow City Pedagogical University;
- Capital Pedagogical State University;
- Russian State Socialist University;
- and a few more metropolitan educational institutions.
Subjects studied by students
Regardless of their specialization, students study blocks of psychological, medical and special disciplines, defectology and its medical and biological foundations, speech therapy, children's psychocorrection, psychodiagnostics of persons with handicapped.
Acquired knowledge and skills
Universities will teach students the following:
- carry out diagnostics of disorders (hearing, speech, psychological, intellectual, musculoskeletal), develop a correction scheme;
- analyze medical data for diagnosis;
- know different methods of correction, on their basis to carry out rehabilitation, training and socialization;
- be able to evaluate the result of work;
- develop social rehabilitation programs;
- advise and provide psychological help families with children with disabilities.
Whom to work 
Specialties related to correction:
- defectologist;
- teacher of the deaf;
- speech therapist;
- teacher for correction or psycho-correction;
- oligophrenopedagogue;
- typhlopedagogue.
The salary depends on the chosen profile: speech therapists are in demand on the market and can count on an average income of 40 thousand rubles, psychologists and teachers earn less. The society is aimed at the development of tolerance, there is hope for greater demand and earnings for such specialists.
Continuing education in the specialty
The direction implies constant self-development, readiness for improvement and scientific work. If a specialist is interested in a specific area of research, it makes sense for him to enroll in graduate school at the Department of Psychology and develop a dissertation on the chosen issue.
Direction of preparation: 44.04.03 Special (defectological) education
Training period: 2 years
Form of study: full-time
Qualification: master
The complexity of the program: 120 credit units for the entire period of study, including all types of classroom and independent work student, practice and the time allotted for quality control of the student's mastering of the OBEP, according to the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in the direction of training 44.04.03 Special (defectological) education.
When implementing a master's program in this direction training applied e-learning and remote educational technologies. Classroom classes are held in accordance with the schedule at a convenient time for students.
The purpose of this program– ensure the training of highly qualified specialists special education who own the fundamental theoretical and methodological foundations of special pedagogy and psychology, design, approbation and implementation of psychological and pedagogical technologies for identifying and correcting disorders in speech development, as well as the readiness of the graduate for correctional and pedagogical, diagnostic and consultative, preventive, research, organizational and managerial, cultural and educational types of professional activities in the following systems: correctional and educational, rehabilitation, social adaptation, general education.
Types of professional activity Master's graduate in the field of study 44.04.03 Special (defectological) education:
- psychological and pedagogical support of preschool, general, additional and vocational education;
- psychological and pedagogical support for children with disabilities in social interaction, general and inclusive education;
- pedagogical activity;
- research activities;
- scientific and methodological activity;
- organizational and managerial activities;
- cultural and educational.
Area of professional activity graduate includes: education of persons (children, adolescents and adults) with disabilities, implemented in various state and non-state educational, social and healthcare structures in various institutional conditions.
Objects of professional activity graduate: correctional and developing educational and rehabilitation processes; correctional-educational, rehabilitation, social-adaptive and general educational systems.
Academic disciplines: According to the curriculum.
Practices: In accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education in the direction of training 44.04.03 "Special (defectological) education", qualification (degree) "master", the master's program "Speech therapy" the practice program is a mandatory section of the main educational program of the master's program.
The following types of practices are envisaged during the implementation of the Master's OBEP in this area of training: research, pedagogical, research and production, pre-diploma.
Practices are held in educational structures, healthcare and social protection structures, as well as in third-party organizations or in departments and laboratories of the university that have the necessary human and scientific and technical potential.
Acceptance of documents from June 18, 2018. Pre-registration is open, fill out the form below.
The Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis provides a unique opportunity to receive special (defectological) education in a distance format.
Faculty of Correctional Pedagogy and Special Psychology
All over the world, the number of children with disabilities (HIA) who need special conditions for education, upbringing and development, which can only be provided by specially trained professionals, is increasing every year. The demand for specialists in this field is very high, and at the moment both medical institutions, social assistance institutions, preschool and school institutions need professionals.
At present, specialists of preschool and school education can obtain special knowledge and qualification "Defectologist": educators, teachers elementary school, psychologists, medical workers, parents, that is, all participants in the inclusive (joint) education of children with disabilities and children with normal development. In addition, graduates of schools and colleges can study at the faculty. Moreover, graduates of specialized educational institutions can count on an abbreviated form of education.
The Faculty of Correctional Pedagogy and Special Psychology trains specialists to work with different categories children with deviations in psychophysical development: with disorders of speech, intelligence, hearing, vision, musculoskeletal system, with a delay mental development with behavioral deviations.
To be able to conduct differential diagnosis of children with developmental disabilities, students are taught methods of examining children in order to determine a specific disorder. In this regard, the physical, mental, mental and speech development fine.
Students master special methods for determining deviations from the norm of development. Moreover, in parallel with mastering theoretical knowledge, students are given the opportunity to attend special preschool institutions for children with various developmental disabilities in order to gain an understanding of the use of diagnostic techniques in practice. These include methods of professional work with children with speech, intellect, hearing, vision, musculoskeletal disorders, mental retardation, disorders of the emotional-volitional sphere, and behavioral difficulties.
Students undergo mandatory active correctional and pedagogical practice as a speech therapist, oligophrenopedagogue, typhlopedagogue, deaf teacher and psychologist in special institutions for children with various developmental disabilities, each type of practice lasts from 2 to 4 weeks depending on the form of training.
Starting from the second year, students perform on the chosen topic term papers and in the last year they complete their studies by preparing and defending their final qualifying work.
Classes with students are conducted by highly qualified teachers - professors and associate professors of the faculty. Leading experts from various universities in Moscow are invited to give lectures in individual disciplines: Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, MGOPU them. M.A. Sholokhov, Institute of Correctional Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, etc.
At the faculty, students are actively involved in research work. Student research groups are organized in all sections of correctional pedagogy and special psychology, which helps students in writing term papers and final qualification papers. Many students are actively involved in scientific interuniversity conferences and student competitions, have scientific publications. After receiving a bachelor's degree, students can continue their studies at the faculty's master's program in the direction of "Special (defectological) education".
Graduates of the faculty receive the right to work:
In special institutions for children with various developmental disabilities
In children's educational institutions, in psychological, medical and pedagogical commissions
In orphanages
Children's clinics and hospitals
In psycho-neurological dispensaries
Sanatoriums
In the social security system
As part of distance learning at the Faculty of Correctional Pedagogy and Special Psychology, bachelors are trained in the following profiles of special (defectological) education:
speech therapy
Preschool defectology
If you want to become a professional in the field of defectology and special pedagogy, but do not have the opportunity to attend regular classes at the Institute, then distance learning is the most suitable option for you to receive higher special (defectology) education.
Features of the implementation of distance learning at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis
Training using remote technologies carried out using a specially designed educational portal
This portal (see presentation) allows you to implement not only the actual educational features, but also the functions of communication between all participants in the training (students, teachers, administration of the institute).
On learning portal presents not only the main educational material for each discipline ( teaching aid, a short course of lectures, assignments), but also additional training materials (links to informational resources on the course, problematic articles, etc.), which allows students to more differentiatedly get acquainted with the discipline being studied.
For each of the disciplines of the professional cycle, the educational portal contains recordings of video lectures by the Institute's teachers, which present the most important/difficult parts of the discipline being studied.
An important component educational process are online lectures And teachers' seminars that take place using technology webinars. In real time, teachers and students discuss educational material, analyze problematic case situations, etc. After the end of the session, all its participants have the opportunity to repeatedly view the recording of the webinar. And those who could not attend the online event will get acquainted with the content of the lesson.
Implementation feature educational programs at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis is to provide students with ample opportunities for self-education, the development of special skills and professional skills. The Institute holds a variety of open lectures, master classes and elective courses every month, which are broadcast on the Internet through a webinar system.