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