Football training as a method to improve the psycho-emotional state of schoolchildren with mental development impairments

The article presents the effectiveness assessment of the training activities programme material based on the author's programme of the Special Olympics Football. Positive changes in the psycho-emotional state of those engaged in football have been revealed. The data, obtained in the process of the pedagogical experiment, confirmed the effectiveness of the developed football training programme, since at the second stage of the consecutive experiment, there were significant differences (p