Abstract
The article emphasizes that the formation of social perception is an important task of special education since it is in the preschool period that the foundations of social competence are laid – an important component of life competences as an integral characteristic of the psyche and personality. It has been substantiated that the dispositional component of social perception is decisive because internal (figurative) and external (motor) acts of social and perceptual activity are carried out on the basis of an attitude, are derived from it and mediated by it. The article also summarizes the results of the study of the dispositional component of social perception, reveals the specifics of the interaction of a child with infantile cerebral palsy with other family members. In the research, the authors used theoretical and empirical methods, as well as methods of mathematical statistics. The results of the study indicate, in general, a low level of formation of the dispositional component of social perception in children with cerebral palsy. The obtained data allow to conclude that for preschoolers with cerebral palsy, the family is the reference group that significantly influences the formation of attitudes and types of attitudes towards other people.