The development of voluntary behavior of children with intellectual disabilities is a complex and long-term process that requires special comprehensive behavioral therapy, which should be aimed at correcting disadaptive patterns of behavior. The purpose of the article is a comparative clinical and psychological analysis of voluntary behavior of children with intellectual disabilities and identification of the main mechanisms of its origin.

The article presents the research results of strategies of voluntary behavior of primary schoolchildren in health and with mental disabilities. The levels of voluntary regulation and cognitive strategies of behavior in health and disease are distinguished.

The study is resulted in structural and functional model of voluntary regulation of behavior of children with mental disorders; concept of dynamic study of voluntary behavior of primary schoolchildren in health and disease, which is reflected in the interrelated levels of personal organization; assessment of levels of voluntary regulation of primary schoolchildren in health and disease.

The article presents the results of studies of strategies of voluntary behavior of primary schoolchildren in health and with mental disabilities. The main determinants of its origin are established. The levels of voluntary regulation and cognitive strategies of behavior in health and disease are distinguished.