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School for Dyslexia: Empower Every Learner

Oct 15, 2025
 
 

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Finding the right educational environment for a child with dyslexia can significantly impact their academic and personal growth. Lindamood-Bell Academy is a school that offers a welcoming and positive atmosphere that can support the unique challenges of dyslexia. Our approach empowers students through specialized instruction, fostering confidence and improved learning ability. With our proven methods and nurturing environment, students overcome reading difficulties and excel in their educational journey. Explore how our unique school can transform your child’s learning experience.

 

Understanding Dyslexia: A Unique Learning Journey

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Children with dyslexia often struggle with reading and may find traditional classrooms challenging. Common symptoms include difficulty with phonological processing, spelling, and reading fluency. These challenges can lead to frustration and are often misunderstood as a lack of effort, making it essential for parents and educators to fully understand dyslexia.

Beyond academics, dyslexia can impact self-esteem and motivation, sometimes leaving children feeling isolated. At Lindamood-Bell Academy, we specialize in evidence-based interventions that empower children with dyslexia by developing the reading and language skills they struggle with. 

 

Why Choose a School for Dyslexia?

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Opting for a school that specializes in working with students diagnosed with dyslexia can be life-changing for children with learning challenges. At Lindamood-Bell Academy, our educators are trained in evidence-based instructional programs specifically designed to help students with dyslexia. Our school offers one-to-one instruction that recognizes each student’s strengths while meaningfully addressing their challenges.

Students who struggle with sounding out words or who are slow readers may have weak symbol imagery—the ability to visualize the letters/letter combinations in words. This difficulty makes reading frustrating and limits access to classroom instruction and curriculum. Over time, students with weak reading skills tend to fall further behind in typical school settings. At Lindamood-Bell Academy, we integrate individualized school curriculum with our evidence-based instruction to address the underlying causes of reading difficulties. The Lindamood-Bell  Academy is an ideal setting for students diagnosed with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences.

The development of a student’s symbol imagery skills and our nurturing learning environment make learning more engaging and effective. Students gain confidence in their new abilities, which carry over into all areas of life. Our unique instructional approach has been proven effective in developing reading and language skills—even for students with dyslexia who have struggled for years.

 

Students with a Prior Dyslexia Diagnosis Who Received Both Decoding and Comprehension Instruction

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Years: Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2023

Number of Students: 1,614

Average Age: 11.9

Average Hours of Instruction:  158.6

Lindamood-Bell Instruction Implemented: Seeing Stars and Visualizing and Verbalizing

 

Our Unique Approach to Learning

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At Lindamood-Bell Academy, we understand that students with dyslexia can thrive within a personalized school experience. Our instructional model begins with a comprehensive Learning Ability Evaluation to identify each student’s strengths and weaknesses. Based on the results, we create a personalized student plan that includes multisensory instruction focused on developing the sensory-cognitive processes essential for reading and comprehension.

Our learning model goes beyond simply adapting the curriculum. We aim to develop cognition—the thinking and reasoning skills that help students succeed in school and in life. Every lesson is an opportunity to engage students in deeper learning and help them apply their skills across subjects.

With our supportive, engaging environment and proven methods, students can truly thrive. Parents can feel confident knowing their child is supported by the best available instruction for students with dyslexia.

 

Our School: Success Story from a Student with Dyslexia

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At Lindamood-Bell Academy, we believe every student with dyslexia deserves the chance to succeed. Our instructors are dedicated to helping students overcome learning barriers and build confidence.

Many parents of Lindamood-Bell Academy students say their child didn’t just grow as a reader—they gained confidence and a stronger sense of self.

 

Meet Brooklyn, a bright student whose dyslexia made traditional school a daily struggle. When a specialist recommended Lindamood-Bell Academy, it changed everything. Our personalized approach supported her learning needs and sparked her natural curiosity.

 

At Lindamood-Bell Academy, we’re committed to making a lasting difference in the lives of our students. Whether a student has been diagnosed with dyslexia, ADHD, or other learning challenges, we offer a school experience that is truly centered around their success.

Contact us to learn more or get started at our dyslexia school. By choosing Lindamood-Bell Academy, you’re investing in an educational experience that prioritizes your child’s unique learning journey, setting the foundation for lifelong success.

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🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

🧠 2004: Georgetown University researchers publish an important study on adult dyslexia and Lindamood-Bell instruction.

Led by Dr. Guinevere Eden and published in the scientific journal Neuron, the study used brain imaging to examine changes in adults with dyslexia following eight weeks of intensive Lindamood-Bell instruction.

Researchers found improvements in reading skills along with changes in brain activity, showing that the adult brain can continue to change and develop with reading instruction.

More than 20 years later, these findings continue to offer hope for adults who struggle with reading.

For more about our evidence-based reading instruction, follow the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning!
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

Our next milestone takes us to 2002, when Lindamood-Bell reached another exciting first!

🇬🇧 2002: Our first international Learning Center opens in London, England.
The opening of our London Learning Center meant more children could benefit from individualized instruction to strengthen their reading and comprehension skills. It was another meaningful step in helping more students learn to their potential.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning.

Explore Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎙️ New Podcast Episode: Supporting At-Promise Students

In this episode, we’re joined by Khieem Jackson, Managing Director of Reaching At-Promise Students Association (RAPSA), for a thoughtful conversation about helping at-promise and opportunity youth thrive.
Together, we explore how the words we use to describe students can shape their experiences, and how literacy and learning can open doors to new opportunities beyond the classroom.

🎧 Listen and subscribe at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
Lindamood-Bell will be at the International Dyslexia Association 2026 Annual Reading, Literacy & Learning Conference, November 12–14 in Las Vegas.

Join Paul Worthington, Director of Research and Development, for “ADHD and Dyslexia: Untangling the Comorbidity Conundrum,” which examines research on co-occurring ADHD, dyslexia, and language-processing difficulties, as well as implications for intervention.

📅 November 12–14
📍 Las Vegas + virtual attendance available

Learn more about our presentation and where to find us at the conference at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

📚 2000: Lindamood-Bell partners with juvenile justice schools in San Diego, California, for Project of Hope.

Through this partnership, Lindamood-Bell provided intensive reading and comprehension instruction to young people in the juvenile justice system.
Using the Seeing Stars® and Visualizing and Verbalizing® programs, Project of Hope helped students strengthen their reading and comprehension skills. An independent evaluation found significant gains, offering new hope and opportunities for their futures.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning. 

Explore Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial
Students with ADHD may need more than help with organization and study skills.

Our latest blog explores how individualized instruction can help students strengthen underlying learning skills, manage schoolwork, and become more confident, independent learners.

👉 Learn more at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

📰 1999: Lindamood-Bell is featured in a Newsweek cover story on dyslexia.

The November 22, 1999, issue of Newsweek featured “Dyslexia and the New Science of Reading,” exploring how research was changing our understanding of dyslexia and reading difficulties. The article highlighted Lindamood-Bell’s unique sensory-cognitive approach to developing the underlying skills needed for reading and spelling.

This exciting milestone brought national attention to our work and new hope to students and families facing reading challenges.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning. Learn more about Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
What happens when phonics instruction has been tried, but reading is still difficult?

Join us for our free webinar, More Than Phonics: What Makes Lindamood-Bell Different, to learn why some students need more than decoding practice to become confident, independent readers.

We’ll explore why phonics alone may not address every student’s learning needs and how Lindamood-Bell develops the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading and comprehension.

📅 Thursday, October 15
🕙 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. BST

Can’t attend live? Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording.

🔗 Register at the link in bio @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

📖 1998: The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program is published.

Lindamood-Bell co-founder and speech-language pathologist Patricia Lindamood and her daughter, Phyllis Lindamood, revised the Auditory Discrimination in Depth (ADD) program and published the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LiPS®).

The LiPS® Program helps students develop phonemic awareness by teaching them to discover and label the mouth movements that produce speech sounds. Students learn to identify and sequence sounds in words, then apply those skills to reading, spelling, and speech.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning.

Learn more about Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
“He took off when he learned to read.”

Waseem struggled with reading throughout school. Then, through Kentwood Public Schools’ partnership with Lindamood-Bell, he received Seeing Stars® instruction from a teacher trained in the program.

Today, Waseem is a fourth-year medical student.

Hear Waseem share his journey and the impact learning to read had on his life.
▶️ Watch the full video at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

📚 1997: Two new programs become part of the Lindamood-Bell story.

Nanci Bell published Seeing Stars®, designed to develop symbol imagery, the ability to visualize letters and words for reading and spelling. Long overlooked in literacy instruction, symbol imagery addresses what is a missing piece for many struggling readers.

Nanci Bell and Kimberly Tuley also published On Cloud Nine® Math, designed to develop numerical imagery for number sense and mathematical reasoning.

Nearly 30 years later, both programs remain core to Lindamood-Bell instruction and our commitment to helping students learn to their potential.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning.
Learn more about Lindamood-Bell and our instruction at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month 💙📚

For more than 40 years, Lindamood-Bell has helped students with dyslexia strengthen the skills needed for reading and learning.

Research shows what’s possible: with targeted, intensive instruction, students with dyslexia can make significant gains in reading, and studies have documented measurable changes in the brain systems that support reading.

Learn more about our approach, student outcomes, and the research behind our work. Follow the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

Our next milestone takes us across the globe!

🌏 1996: Our first international Seasonal Learning Center opens in Sydney, Australia.

This milestone meant more students and families could experience Lindamood-Bell instruction, helping students strengthen their reading skills and learn to their potential.

Follow along as we celebrate 40 years of changing lives through learning and the milestones that brought us here.

Learn more about Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
🎉 40 Years of Changing Lives Through Learning

Our journey through 40 years of Lindamood-Bell continues with a milestone from 1993.

1993: The first Lindamood-Bell International Conference is held in Shell Beach, California.

In addition to program workshops, attendees had the opportunity to hear from professionals and scholars in the fields of learning, literacy, and cognition. Over the years, our International Conference has featured influential voices such as Allan Paivio, Jane Healy, and Temple Grandin, among many others.

Follow along as we continue celebrating 40 years of changing lives through learning and sharing the milestones that brought us here.

Learn more about Lindamood-Bell at the link in our bio, @lindamoodbellofficial.
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