Stahlke Adoption

Step 5

Madeline Hunter's next suggestion for helping PI (post-institutionalized) children learn:

Although these children may seem to have excellent expressive language skills, their receptive language is often very disabled, which means they may not be able to answer questions related to information you think they have mastered.

Social language and school (content) language are very different.

Though it may seem that children who have lived in institutions are able to learn the English language quickly, these are often surface language skills.

Therefore, check that the student ACTUALLY understands a direction.

posted by Stahlkes @ 4:52 PM