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Being a Star!
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Dear Nanci Bell, It has been pleasure for me to work with Lindamood-Bell for such a long time. I have worked on Seeing Stars, Visualizing & Verbalizing, and On Cloud Nine Math. The programs have moved me up greatly. The teachers have been wonderful and always so nice. I'm so happy that you made these programs. Now I can read write and do math. I wish everyone could go to Lindamood-Bell and have the same experience. From LG
PS. Congratulations on being a star!
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Tony ~ Talkies® student
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When
Tony came for instruction last summer (for only two hours/day), he had
little expressive language and spoke mostly in one-word sentences.
When asked what color the turtle's shell was, he would answer,
"Round."
He
needed constant reassurance, asking, "Am I doing a good job?" at the
end of each response, and if his clinician missed one and failed to
say, "Yes, Tony!" he would have a complete meltdown and have to stop
instruction. Tony's parents credited Lindamood-Bell with getting Tony
to a place with his language that allowed him to be accepted into a
private school for LD students.
When
Tony came back for instruction again this past summer, he was talking
with complete, coherent sentences about all kinds of things!
We
moved into V/V® and SI™, and he made great progress. We met with his
teacher, and she has seen a tremendous change in Tony just since the
end of last school year from coming to Lindamood-Bell (he has the same
teacher again this year). Tony's parents tell us that Tony is
constantly telling his older, neuro-typical sister that she needs to be
picturing!
Here's
the best part though: we have not worked on math at all with Tony;
instead, his father helps him at home and has created a chart for
Tony's math facts. One day this summer, Tony asked his dad to do math
with him, but Daniel said, "I have to work on the computer now, but I
could give you some problems out loud, and we'll see how it goes."
Tony was getting every problem correct, and amazed, his father said,
"Tony, how are you doing that?" Tony said very matter-of-factly, "I'm
visualizing my math chart."
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