Language disorders in children with mental deficiency

In education and instruction of children with mental disabilities, language development and speech correction are important goals for the teachers. By this paper we want to identify the variety of language disorders at children with mental deficiency and the factors that influencing these. We supposed that the speech level is influenced by the type and level of the deficiency, but there are other factors like the attitude of teachers and the perception of colleagues which can be important in language development. We used a questionnaire that was applied to 40 teachers from special education schools and we worked with a number of 72 pupils with mental deficiency from a Special Education School Center from Oradea. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.