Intervención logopédica en una alumna inmigrante con discapacidad intelectual ligera

Abstract

The case is presented of an eight-year-old girl of North African origin, with a slight mental disability and serious language problems, originating in her native language and aggravated by her disability. The development of her oral language skills was below average for her age. In order to evaluate her language skills, the Revised Screening version of the Objective Criteria Language Battery (BLOC-SR) and the complete version of (BLOC-C) were used. The results showed difficulties in all the language components, but they were greater at the morphological and syntactic levels. The intervention consisted of fifteen sessions which worked on different activities related to the four language areas (morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics). The main aim was to encourage the girl's communication, verbal comprehension and expression in Spanish, in order to improve her linguistic development.