Communication Skills

• Oral Language
• L.A.M.H

Oral Language

The overall aim of the oral language curriulum for children with a moderate learning disability is that they should be able to understand and be understood. All children should have the communicative competence consistent with their intellectual capacity and with the environment in which they live. In this respect the aims of the language curriculum for pupils with a learning disability are similar to those for normal children. Most handicapped children should be able, at the end of the period of schooling, to use the language for the following purposes:

(a) to participate in discourse with others
(b) to listen to others and to react appropriately to others conversation
(c) to make known through language their physical, social and emotional needs
(d) to follow simple oral instructions and to translate them into action
(e) to defend and protect themselves through language
(f) to greet other people and to use everyday courtesies of language
(g) to enrich their experiences by describing them through language
(h) to use language for classifying their experiences, first in their immediate environment, and later in the world in general
(i) to develop a strategy for dealing with failure, e.g. I do not understand; where is the bus stop?
(j) to be able to use correctly modern means of communication, e.g. the telephone.