Preliminary Findings on Implementing an Interdisciplinary (Psychological, Medical, and Pedagogical) Approach at the Pediatric’s Appointment
Author(s)
Galina A. Mishina, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Special Psychology and Education, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8406-2246,
Institute of Special Education
8 Pogodinskaya St, bldg. 1, Moscow, 119121, Russia, tel: +7 (499) 2450452, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Julia D. Chernichkina, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Senior Researcher of the Department of Education and Complex Habilitation of Children with speech/language problems, https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1135-8576, Institute of Special Education
8 Pogodinskaya St, bldg. 1, Moscow, 119121, Russia, tel: +7 (499) 2450452, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anna V. Degtyareva, Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor, Head of the Pediatrics Department, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0822-751X, Institute of Neonatology and Pediatrics, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
4 Akademik Oparin St, Moscow, 117997, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 5314444, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eugenia M. Karachunskaya, Candidate of Science (Medicine), https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4767-8407, Institute of Neonatology and Pediatrics, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
4 Akademik Oparin St, Moscow, 117997, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 5314444, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Natalia A. Prikhodko, Candidate of Science (Medicine), https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3768-6897,
Institute of Neonatology and Pediatrics, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics,
Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
4 Akademik Oparin St, Moscow, 117997, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 5314444, n_prikhodko @oparina4.ru
Dmitriy N. Degtyarev, Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor, Deputy Director for Science
Institute of Neonatology and Pediatrics, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8975-2425, National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I. Kulakov of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
4 Akademik Oparin St, Moscow, 117997, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 5314444, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract: Introduction. One of the key objectives in establishing the legal and methodological framework for early intervention for children and their families is “…ensuring interdepartmental information interaction ...”, “... development of structural units of early intervention...” (V. V. Lorer. Early intervention of children and their families. State and prospects of development, 04/24/2024, report). This underscores the necessity of an interdisciplinary (psychological, medical, and pedagogical) approach as fundamental to addressing the identify ed objective effectively. The authors (including pediatricians, a special clinical psychologist, and a speech therapist) focused their attention on finding possible solutions to the problem, which was the primary objective of the pilot phase of the project. This article presents the preliminary results from this initial stage of the joint project implementation.
Materials and methods. This scientific research project is a collaborative eff ort of the researchers of the Pediatrics Department at the Institute of Neonatology and Pediatrics FSBI “NRMC OGP named after academician V.I. Kulakov” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Center’s Director – Academician G.T. Sukhikh) and FSBSI “The Institute of Special Education” (ISE). From December 2023 to the present, children of the first and second years of life and their parents have participated in the study. A total of 318 assessments were conducted. Pediatricians, a special psychologist, a clinical psychologist and a medical speech therapist took part in the research. The research employed observation, interviews, medical data analysis, and an original method based on the cultural and historical approach.
Results. The pilot phase of the conducted study highlighted the organizational conditions required to implement an interdisciplinary approach for identifying at-risk children in pediatric settings. Related problems were identified: a rise in parents participating in assisted reproductive technology (ART) programs; increased numbers of families raising twins; more children being raised bilingually; and issues related to verifying developmental assessment data obtained by domestic specialists.
Conclusion. The scientific research project is currently ongoing. The identified related problems have shaped the next phase objectives of the study, which include defining developmental indicators that can serve as a prognostic marker of a child’s “normotypical” cognitive development trajectory, as well as developing diagnostic tools that enable comparison between the assessment data of the development of infants and young children obtained by Russian specialists with those gathered by their international counterparts.
Keywords: interdisciplinary approach, infancy, toddlers, early intervention, ART (assisted reproductive technologies)
For citation: Mishina G.A., Chernichkina J.D., Degtyareva A.V., Karachunskaya E.M., Prikhodko N.A., Degtyarev D.N. Preliminary Findings on Implementing an Interdisciplinary
(Psychological, Medical, and Pedagogical) Approach at the Pediatric’s Appointment. Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2025; 19 (3). Pp.462-474. (In Russ.). DOI:
10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-3-462-474
DOI: 10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-3-462-474
UDС: 376.1
The article was submitted to the editorial office on 16.06.2025, approved after review on
25.08.2025, and accepted for publication on 30.08.2025.