The Problem of Developing the Linguistic Personality of Speech Therapists in the System of Continuous Professional Education

The article is devoted to the problem of development of linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Speech, communicative and subject-activity qualities of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist serve as the basis for formation of his professional competence, which determines the relevance of the study. Objective: to generalize theoretical and practical issues of development of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Objectives: to analyze the essence and content of the concept "linguistic personality" in professional activity; to describe the specifics of professional communication and professional speech of speech therapists; to identify the essential characteristics of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist; to determine the pedagogical and linguodidactic conditions for development of the linguistic personality of a speech therapist in the system of continuous professional education. Results and conclusions: the phenomenon of linguistic personality has a significant development resource for the development of innovative models of language teaching from the position of mastering the linguistic means of professional discourse by the subject of learning; The linguistic identity of a speech therapist is formed within the framework of professional and pedagogical discourse, which has structural and semantic features and is reflected in the phonetic, lexical-phraseological, and textual-grammatical characteristics of speech. The development of the speech, communicative, and subject-activity qualities of the linguistic identity of a speech therapist is possible through the development and implementation of a linguodidactic model for the development of the linguistic identity of a speech therapist, which integrates the technologies of defectological and linguistic training of speech therapists within the system of continuous professional education.

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