The basic special education curriculum of the Department of Public Instruction of Puerto Rico is designed so that the skills defined can be used to attend to the needs of children with disabilities. This teacher's guide, in Spanish, presents a basic language curriculum to help the child develop the ability to communicate effectively. It includes lesson plans to develop language skills that the teacher will select according to the child's needs and learning level. Skills are defined for children from birth through 6 years in the areas of receptive language (the understanding of spoken language) and expressive language (the production of speech). The chronological ages are suggested only as a way of providing a sequence of skills; students may progress at a very different rate. Appendixes contain some songs, a discussion of the development of speech and language, and some information about speech production. (Contains 8 references.) (SLD)