This article will consider the problem of the development of thinking and speech in children of modern society at an early preschool age using play situations. Experts have come to the conclusion that the leading activity for children is a play form. It causes the qualitative development of the child as a person, as well as develops speech and thinking.

Recently, there has been a positive trend towards an increase in children with learning difficulties. Visual-spatial functions underlie the formation of higher mental functions, including emotional life. The lack of formation of spatial representations inevitably leads to a significant violation of cognitive operations and visual thought processes necessary for the successful mastering of the school curriculum. The study of spatial representations in children of primary school age showed that children with learning difficulties are characterized by such disorders as reversion and perspective defects, dysmetry, difficulties in rendering three-dimensionality, planar images, fragmentation of the perceptual image, fragmented and chaotic strategies of optical-spatial activity.

As a therapeutic tool, art is a way to develop reflexive self-awareness. We suggest that to establish a link between art-therapy and the advancement of self-consciousness is a necessity taking into account that consciousness compounds of awareness of one’s body and one’s environment. Then we can regard self-awareness as recognition of consciousness. We suggest that a human body plays a key role in the process of conscious experience and that art can refine this process, increasing the awareness of self and others.

The article presents the results of approbation of the program of correctional and developmental support for the formation of small motor skills in younger schoolchildren with disorders of the musculoskeletal system. The authors propose a set of measures for the complex impact on speech, mental functions, as well as their physical development.

The article presents the results of a study of self-esteem of young managers who are building their careers in management and business. The study of self-esteem using several different diagnostic techniques allows us to predict their further growth in professional activity.

At the moment, universities are faced with the task of training highly educated specialists [1]. The process of teaching medical students as high-class professionals is subject to corresponding requirements. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, working conditions were defined at Kursk Medical University, implying an emphasis on the active introduction of distance learning into the pedagogical process (including to ensure the safety of the health of students and teachers, and the prevention of covid infection). Despite the specificity of distance education, which does not imply active face-to-face interaction “student-teacher-patient”, work experience has shown that distance learning for medical students can be actively used in the educational process as an alternative form of education in a pandemic and other emergency situations.

The article presents the results of a correlation study of the value-semantic indicators of cadets of a departmental university at the initial stage of professional development. Based on the results obtained, it is proved that value categories have close interconnections with life-meaningful orientations, which allows us to form a positive attitude towards future socially significant professional activities during a specially organized educational process.

This article considers the functional changes of a walk. In the beginning of the 20th century, this sort of daily activity was an apology for having a lot of spare time. The modern society makes it clear that a walk on a week-day may do harm to the multitasking image of citizen.

Walter Benjamin noticed an anticipation of Charles Baudelaire that gets the modern attributes. In the article, the anticipation is analyzed as a part of the existential presence of a poet. By this way the poet can resist the fate and he has a feeling of future. Baudelaire’s literature career and his lifestyle are an embodiment of it. It is the main tool to stand with a faith. From one hand, his works have no similarity with others poets, in their loneliness, flânerie, and manners, from the other hand in their personal embodiment.