The collection of conference materials is devoted to modern problems of education of persons with disabilities and university training of specialists in the field of "Special (defective) education" in Russia and abroad . The following theoretical and methodological issues were considered within the framework of the conference: development of a new professional standard of higher education ; content and organization of higher education of persons with hearing impairment, implemented at the MPSU ; Inclusive Learning ; Psychological and pedagogical support of schoolchildren and students with disabilities ; Formation of social competences of students ; Variability of education programs for children with multiple developmental disabilities; socialization of students with disabilities through their socially useful and personally significant activities ; Education of persons with OVZ ; professional orientation and values, spiritual and moral development ; organization and content of correctional and pedagogical work with children with speech, hearing, vision, ASD, intelligence in the context of the implementation of new educational standards of persons with disabilities . The authors of the articles are university teachers, school teachers, educators, graduate students, undergraduates and students, including those with hearing impairments. The publication is intended for specialists in the field of education of persons with disabilities.