The contribution of the O.K. Tikhomirov’s school in the field of psychology of thinking is analyzed, and the main elements of the personal meanings theory of thinking are presented: namely, personalityrelated determination of thinking, regulative function of emotions, actual genesis of goalsetting and senseformation processes, creative thinking, and the impact of information technologies on the transformations of intellectual and communicative activities.

This article is devoted to the investigation the problem of correlation between thinking and speech in the development of deaf and hardofhearing children. There are adduced results of intellect’s verbal and nonverbal components research. It has been shown that the rates of development hardofhearing children’s verbal components of intellect are lower than nonverbal. The result is increased disproportion in development visual and conceptual forms of thinking.