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Elaboration and Application of a manual with communicative strategies based on Basic English Called "Language Grammar Through Braille"  LGB Learning benefits the speaking skill from the blind students at APRODVICH association, in Riobamba city, aimed to develop communicative strategies with blind students through vocabulary activities, basic structures and the use of wh-questions in order to improve the skills of listening and speaking in Basic English.  Based on the manual to develop the speaking skill of Basic English aimed to blind students. The research arises from a quasi-experimental, correlational design, applicable type, descriptive-explanatory, bibliographic and field; the method used is the hypothetical - deductive based on the approach of hypotheses and deduction of facts and phenomena, the technique used was the observation which was applied to 8 blind students of the APRODVICH Association in order to display the progress in its development of basic English speech. The manual with communicative strategies “LGB Learning” allowed to guide the teaching-learning process of English, based on active techniques where they can apply the tactual pictures technique and express the reading and knowledge for a new learning; the results of the implementation of the manual identified the strengths and weaknesses of spoken English, and then proceed to the testing of hypotheses and therefore establish the conclusions and the recommendations. The achieved results are positive because they developed their vocabulary through listening and speaking activities, by constantly repeating words and creating dialogues among students, by structuring and pronouncing of sentences using verb “to be” and the basic structures, and also through the use of “wh-questions” by asking and answering questions to reach meaningful learning.

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Luis Guadalupe Bravo (Ecuador) 12713
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