The relevance of the problem of specific learning disorders is becoming greater due to their increase among school-age children. The issue of their prevention is insufficiently discussed, which explains the limited number of studies on preschool children who are about to enter school. Delineating their neuropsychological profiles is important for deriving age norms for the development of basic mental functions, as well as for predicting future obstacles in the literacy process. The reason for this is that the preschool period has a specific sensitivity to the specialization of the cerebral hemispheres and the formation of the morpho-functional basis of higher psychic functions. Graphomotor skills are a basic phenomenon in preschool age, and their development implies a complex integration of programming, executive and spatial functions. According to literature, deficits in graphic functions are part of the developmental dyslexia syndrome.？Purpose of the Study:？To analyze the dynamics of neuropsychological mechanisms in the formation of motor graphic programs in the preschool period (4-, 5- and 6-year-old children).？Hypotheses:？1)？The age factor has a leading importance for the development of cerebral mechanisms and for the dynamics of graphomotor functions during the preschool period; 2)？Children with typical development demonstrate different levels of graphic skills determined by the influence of social conditions and individual dynamics in the development of brain mechanisms of motor programs.？Method:？Neuropsychological graphomotor test “Fence”, assessing
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