Skorokhodova Olga Ivanovna: life in silence and darkness
Skorokhodova Olga Ivanovna - the famouswriter, who by fate's will found herself in a difficult life situation. Deprived of childhood vision and hearing, with the help of not indifferent noble people, she managed to adequately realize herself, leaving the descendants in the legacy of a huge literary heritage. The texts of her works contain the most interesting material about the features of the imagination and the specifics of the perception of the surrounding world by a deaf-blind person.
Olga Ivanovna Skorokhodova, whose poemshelp penetrate the inner world of a person deprived of hearing and sight, managed to preserve sincere interest and joy in life and convincingly delivered this to the younger generation in heartfelt literary lines. These records, relevant today, will be in demand in the future. Thanks to Professor IA Sokoliansky, colleagues from work and friends, Olga Skorokhodova's own biography took place: creative and scientific.
Skorohodova Olga Ivanovna: Biography
Olga Skorokhodova was born in 1911 in thea small village Belozyorka (now smt) near Kherson. Mom worked part-time in the clergyman's family, and the father, drafted into the army during the First World War, did not return to the family. At the age of eight, the girl had meningitis, complications of which became a total deprivation of the ability to hear and see by the age of 14. After the death of her mother in 1922, she lived for a short time with her relatives, then she was registered in a school for the blind (the city of Odessa).
It was in this institution that Olga managed to survivehungry years, but no one wanted to study individually with nothing that could not hear or see the girl. Her presence in the classroom with blind children was useless, as the teacher Olga did not hear at all. In addition, the school was often transferred from one place to another, there was a shortage of technical personnel, due to which blind children were forced to serve themselves.
Under the tutelage of IA Sokolyansky
The final loss of hearing was supplementedviolations of the vestibular apparatus: Olga Ivanovna Skorokhodova began to experience difficulties when walking, she often had dizziness. The deaf-blind girl was informed by Professor Ivan Afanasievich Sokolyansky, who practiced in Kharkov and organized the Deafblind School-Clinic. Olga, who was transferred there in 1925, was given time to settle in the new situation, after which the professor engaged in the restoration of her oral speech, broken after hearing loss.
The institution in which Olga was brought up wasvery comfortable and there were a small number of students: from 5 to 9 people, each of whom had an individual approach, had his own personal place to study with the teacher. Also, the institution was equipped with a common room for physical exercises, joint games and other recreational activities. The garden was landscaped with paths, fenced flower beds, lawns and playgrounds. During the summer period, swings were installed on its territory, tables were taken out for table games, hammocks were hanging out.
To understand, feel, write down
Sokoliansky, in his work with deafblind children, was aimed to receive from them in any, even the simplest form, self-observation, and also taught them to talk about themselves and their own experiences.
Together with Olga, without waiting until the one in fullthey will learn the technique of writing, they begin to describe the events on a daily basis and regularly return to previous records, re-writing every 20 times. As the written and literary speech was studied, Olga Ivanovna Skorokhodova edited the observations described, leaving the facts unchanged. The girl led the recordings herself, without any outside interference and outside tales. Teachers for the purpose of acquaintance (not editing) showed already fully prepared material, which for 17 years of painstaking work has accumulated enough for the publication of the debut book. By the way, when you published the manuscript, Olga Skorokhodova was never subjected to editorial corrections.
Having received secondary education on an individualprogram, Skorokhodova Olga Ivanovna decided to enter the Pedagogical University. At the same time, she began actively communicating with the writer Maxim Gorky. The irresistible plans of the girl, as well as of all Soviet citizens, were destroyed by the Great Patriotic War, during which Olga Skorokhodova lived in Kharkov. In 1944, moved to Moscow, where she got a job at the Institute of Defectology under the leadership of IA Sokolyansky.
First publications
Her debut book "How I perceive the surroundingsthe world "was presented to the reader in 1947. In it, the author very delicately described the various types of sensitivity characteristic of people without hearing and sight: touch, temperature and taste sensations, vibrational feeling, sense of smell.
Olga Skorokhodova: a creative heritage
The works of Olga Ivanovna Skorokhodova steelwidely known throughout the world, have been translated into several languages. Experience in the life of a person who could not see and hear becomes an example for people in a difficult situation, and the history of development is an invaluable material for science and a methodical guide in the field of psychiatry, psychology and pedagogy.
Skorokhodova Olga Ivanovna, who is the authora large number of poems and popular science articles, until the last days worked at the Moscow Institute of Defectology as a research assistant. There was no single-minded strong personality who managed to live in total darkness and silence all her life, in 1982.
