Dannaya kniga yavlyaetsya obobshcheniem pedagogicheskogo opyta raboty so starshimi doshkolnikami s DTsP: proveden analiz psikhologo-pedagogicheskoy literatury po zayavlennoy teme; predlozhena avtorskaya metodika issledovaniya urovnya sformirovannosti predstavleniy o prirode u starshikh doshkolnikov; vydeleny spetsificheskie osobennosti predstavleniy o prirode u starshikh doshkolnikov s DTsP; predstavlena model formirovaniya predstavleniy o prirode u starshikh doshkolnikov s DTsP, napravlennaya na tselostnoe, vsestoronnee razvitie lichnosti rebenka.