Osnovnoe napravlenie bor'by s rasprostraneniem nasledstvennoy patologii v obshchestve v techenie ryada let bylo tesno svyazano so slozhnymi voprosami diagnostiki vrozhdennykh i nasledstvennykh bolezney i defektov. Dostizheniya razlichnykh nauchnykh distsiplin molekulyarnoy i meditsinskoy genetiki, biokhimii, immunologii i dr. obuslovili prakticheskuyu vozmozhnost' svoevremennoy identifikatsii znachitel'nogo chisla nasledstvennykh narusheniy obmena veshchestv. Poyavilis' real'nye predposylki dlya podkhoda k razresheniyu mnogoobraznykh zadach meditsinskoy i sotsial'no-psikhologicheskoy reabilitatsii porazhennykh etoy patologiey detey. V dannoy monografii reshayutsya nekotorye differentsial'no-diagnosticheskie problemy. S tochki zreniya praktiki, reshenie voprosa psikhologicheskoy diagnostiki i reabilitatsii pomogaet opredelit' profil' kazhdogo bol'nogo, ego individual'nye osobennosti, kharakter defekta i stepen' funktsional'nykh vozmozhnostey. Poluchennye v rabote dannye mozhno ispol'zovat' v profilakticheskoy, konsul'tativnoy i psikhokorrektsionnoy rabote psikhologicheskoy sluzhby, v lektsiyakh, seminarakh dlya studentov psikhologov, defektologov, vrachey. Osoboy znachimost'yu yavlyaetsya razrabotka korrektsionnoy programmy, kotoraya planiruetsya v dal'neyshem.