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Colorado School Implementing Lindamood-Bell Outperforms Comparison Schools in Reading

17 Jun, 2016

Background Haskin Elementary School in Center, Colorado, serves a large percentage of students who are at-risk of reading failure. From 2010–11 to 2013-14, Haskin implemented Lindamood-Bell instruction to address the specific needs of this student population. The first three years of this project, 2010-11 through 2012-13, were funded through a federal School Improvement Grant (SIG)….

Nanci Bell to present at University of Exeter Medical School, International Conference: The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities

17 May, 2016

‘The Eye’s Mind’ is a study, based out of the University of Exeter, of the neural basis of visual imagination, and the individual differences in the ability to visualize.   A conference exploring the project’s findings will be held May 21-22, 2016. The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities is an international conference…

Neurological Activity and Comprehension Skills Improve for Students on the Autism Spectrum

24 Jan, 2016

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

24 Jan, 2016

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…

Changes in Brains of Dyslexics as a Result of Instruction

24 Jan, 2016

Wake Forest University and Georgetown University   Researchers at Wake Forest University and the Child Study Center at Georgetown University have published conclusions about the effects of Lindamood-Bell instruction on the brain activity and reading ability of dyslexic students.   This research noted significant improvements in reading associated with gray matter volume increases following Seeing Stars®…

A New Study About Mental Images

26 Aug, 2015

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…

UAB Study: Improved Reading and Brain Activity Following Visualizing and Verbalizing Instruction

22 Jul, 2015

Lindamood-Bell Press Release Study Cites Improved Reading and Brain Activity in Children with Autism Following Visualizing and Verbalizing® Instruction A new study released by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), in which a group of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) received 10 weeks of intensive instruction utilizing the Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language…

UAB Study on Children with Autism: Improved Reading and Brain Activity, Utilized Lindamood-Bell Instruction

25 Jun, 2015

University of Alabama at Birmingham press release   Autistic children improved reading and brain activity after 10-week reading intervention by Jeff Hansen June 23, 2015 Print Email Ten weeks of intensive reading intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder was enough to strengthen the activity of loosely connected areas of their brains that work together to…

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If your child is struggling with math, it may not be because they are not trying hard enough. When math doesn’t make sense, students may resort to memorization rather than truly understanding what they are doing.
At the root, many struggle to form clear mental images of mathematical concepts, making it harder to see relationships, follow processes, and solve problems with confidence.
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New to Lindamood-Bell? Explore how our personalized instruction can support your child’s learning. 
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Is your child having a hard time with math?
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At Lindamood-Bell, our On Cloud Nine® program integrates imagery with language to help students connect math concepts to verbal reasoning. Students learn to understand the process behind the problem, strengthening both reasoning and computation.
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