Basic Language Skills (BLS)

Overview of Basic Language Skills

(Information from Neuhaus Education Center)

Basic Language Skills is a program that covers many aspects of language acquisition and extends from basic skills to sophisticated levels of linguistic knowledge.

-Based on Orton-Gillingham approach

-Teaches the regularity and predictability of written English

-Effective with students with special needs in learning to read and spell

-Individualized

Students set the pace.

-Systematic and sequential

Regular, reliable patterns of English

Simple to complex

-Structured and process oriented

Multisensory techniques- Involves visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile pathways and links listening, speaking, reading and writing.

-Cumulative

New information is built upon previous learning with concepts being reinforced continually.

-Intensive

Small group or individuals