SummaryAn investigation was conducted to find a method for teaching language skills to children in a Unit for those with language disorders. At the beginning of a school year children from two Units were assessed for intelligence and language ability on two verbal and two performance subtests of W.I.S.C., the P.P.V.T., the R.D.L.S., and the I.T.P.A. During the year a programme developed from I.T.P.A. was administered to children in one Unit only and at the end of the year all the children were reassessed. The children who had been taught by the language programme showed significant improvement on the verbal scale of W.I.S.C., R.D.L.S., and all but two subtests of I.T.P.A., while the other children showed either no significant improvement or a deterioration on all the tests. It is suggested that a method of teaching language skills based on the model of I.T.P.A. is suitable for use with children in a Language Unit.