Techniques in Teaching Reading in EFLfor Children With Down Syndrome Case Study : Children with Down Syndrome at Bousaada Pedagogical Institute for Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

This chapter dealt with presenting the importance of the findings of this study as it tackeled a sensitive and special case that combines neurolinguistics , psychology and didactics. The techniques and the activities were used are disighned by professional researchers in this field in the hope of inspiring other researchers to put this subject under the spotlight and do further studies . However this research encountered some limitations mainly regarding the search of a participant and to convince the caregiver to do the sessions online , it was difficult to find someone ready to sacrifice his time and confort with no personal gain. As well as the limitted number of sessions and the Continuous discontinuation of lessons caused Lethargy the reason why the participant did not want to complete the worksheets . This research provided a set of seggestions on how to teach children with DS to acquire a 2L in order to pave the way for further studies .