The study of the orphans’ communicative competence is a topical thing. The situation of the orphanhood disrupting the function of communication, affects the subsequent development of the child, hindering his intellectual and personal development, preventing the formation of confidence in the security of the surrounding world, initiative, autonomy and identity. The orphanhood can destroy the children’s’ emotional connections with the environment, the world of peers and adults, causing the deepest secondary disorders of a mental, physical, and social nature. Method of the theoretical analysis and systematization of scientific ideas, individual-typological questionnaire L. N. Sobchik; method of the research of communicative-characterological tendencies T. Leary; method of expert assessment of the communicative development level A. G. Samokhvalova; method of communicative control research M. Schneider; diagnostics of communicative social competence; diagnostics of “emotional intelligence” N. Hall; and the assessment were used. We identified the neediness of special psychoeducational work for the successful adaptation of the orphans. It will ensure the mastery of a complex of social roles and the formation of communicative competence. The results complement the existing theoretical positions on the problem of the communicative competence of orphans can be used in the correctional psychological work with orphan-graduates.