Time to Jump-Start Learning
At this point in the school year, students everywhere are feeling the crunch of looming due dates and increased workloads. For students who have any kind of struggle with learning, this time of year can be especially tough. Their performance may have lagged behind peers all year, and increased expectations may now make tackling school…
You’re Invited to an Overview on Learning
This event has ended. For further information or questions regarding our instruction, please contact your local Learning Center or call us at 800.300.1818. Please Come to Our Overview on Learning! We are coming to your area to show you how we teach children and adults to read and comprehend to their potential. Join us and…
Nanci Bell: “We are so excited to celebrate Lindamood-Bell’s 30-year anniversary!”
We are so excited to celebrate Lindamood-Bell’s 30-year anniversary! Our organization is a living entity to me—a creation based on integrity, intelligence, and love. In 1986, Pat Lindamood and I acted on our vision to help each individual learn to his or her potential. As I reflect back to that time and…
The Missing Connection: Why Reading is Still So Hard for Your Child
When a student struggles with reading, extra help typically focuses on phonics, or sounding out words, and spelling rules. Unfortunately, many students, even those who have had months of extra help, continue to struggle with grade level text. Perhaps they sound out a word eventually—but it is slow and labored. They may take…
I See Movies in My Head: The Key to Reading Comprehension
Most reading experts agree on one thing: In order to comprehend what they read, students must have strong decoding skills and adequate oral vocabulary. In other words, a child must be able accurately decode every word on the page, and know what all of the words mean.
Your Child’s Annual Check Up: Include Learning this Year!
For many students, a Learning Check Up is equally essential. Identifying and addressing an underlying weakness in reading or comprehension, preventively, can make all the difference for your child’s successful school year.
You’re Invited to an Open House for Learning
Come to Our All-Day Open House for Learning. Pop in for a few minutes or as long as you’d like. We’d love to show you how we have been creating the Magic of Learning for 30 years!
Get a Handle on Homework – A Parent Workshop
Join us for our new Parent Workshop: Get a Handle on Homework. Our instruction team will show you how to use the imagery-language connection to help your family with assignments and studying.
Topics will include: simplified organization and planning techniques, how to create the home learning environment, effective motivation techniques and incentives, and application of our unique programs to your child’s homework.
Neurological Activity and Comprehension Skills Improve for Students on the Autism Spectrum
The University of Alabama at Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Cognition, Brain and Autism Center collaborated with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes to study the comparative effects of Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) on the brains of children on the Autism Spectrum. This fMRI study, highlighted in two recent peer-reviewed papers, examined activity in the…
Study Uses fMRI to Show Positive Effects of Seeing Stars
Massachusetts Institute of Technology At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers conducted a recent fMRI study on the effect of Seeing Stars instruction on beginning readers at-risk for reading difficulties. The students, and a matched control group, received fMRI scans to measure brain activity, in addition to standardized reading tests, before and after…
