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…
“This is BORING!”: The #1 reason kids say this (It’s not what you think!)
“This is BORING!”: The #1 reason kids say this (It’s not what you think!) If you are looking for ideas for “engaging topics” you may want to stop reading. Really. This article is for the homeschool teachers who have excellent materials and ideas but are still experiencing frustration over kids who “hate reading,” and seem…
A New Study About Mental Images
For more than thirty years, Lindamood-Bell co-founder Nanci Bell has been working to educate parents, education professionals, and researchers about what she identified as concept imagery ability. Published in 1986, her book Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking discusses concept imagery ability, and concept imagery weakness, a condition that scientists are recently terming aphantasia. Visualizing and…
The Key to Reading Confidence
The processing of parts instead of the whole (gestalt) contributes to a range of learning difficulties.
