We've been Creating the Magic of Learning for 25 years!
With integrity, intelligence and humor,
Lindamood-Bell has been helping individuals of all ages reach their learning potential since 1986.
47 Learning Centers across America, one in London, and one in Sydney.
Over 100,000 students of all ages have received Lindamood-Bell® instruction in our Learning Centers and school projects.
Over 70,000 teachers and administrators have received Lindamood-Bell® Professional Development.
Research projects have been conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Georgetown University, Wake Forest University, Scripps Research Institute, Alaska State Department of Education, Texas A&M, and San Diego Superior Court for Juvenile Justice.
Lindamood-Bell has donated over $5,000,000 for research projects.
Over $2,000,000 in scholarships have been awarded to
students in need.
This year marks our 17th Annual International Conference
with guest research speakers from around the world.
In the late 1960’s Patricia
Lindamood, a
licensed speech-language pathologist, had a private practice based out of the
San
Luis Obispo Medical Clinic.
While
working directly with students, Patricia and her husband Charles, a linguistics
professor at Cal Poly University, wrote the Auditory Discrimination in Depth
(ADD)
Program. This
program has
been revised with the help of Charles and Patricia’s daughter Phyllis as the
LiPS® (Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing®) program.
Early on in this period Nanci Bell joined Pat
as an instructor at the San Luis Obispo Medical Clinic practice as she formulated her
work
for comprehension difficulties (Visualizing and Verbalizing®,
V/V®).
The next
progression was that this duo
of Nanci and Patricia branched out from their medical clinic location and
became Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in 1986.
Word began to spread about the success their
programs and instruction were having.
Soon, the San Luis Obispo, California
Learning Center was overflowing
with students from all around the world.
This demand lead to the first
Lindamood-Bell® Learning Center expansion
with the opening of Sacramento and San Diego Learning Centers in 1992.
As we began working in multiple locations it
became clear that we needed to do more to reach those who were not going to
reach
us. Hence, Lindamood-Bell®
Professional Development began offering workshops in these unique programs all
over the world.
While these were greatly successful in
bringing our instructional programs to school children in the classroom, we knew we still had
to do more to bring our internal level of quality control into school
environments. We
learned how to bring our best practices to group instruction
through
a workplace literacy project with Motorola
Corporation. This served as a great proving ground
for having to make large impacts in short time periods, and also earned us
Motorola’s Total Customer Satisfaction Award.
The knowledge we gained from these
unparalleled experiences allowed us to develop the premier on-site school /
district educational program. Years before
terms like RTI (Response to Intervention) and Professional Learning Communities
(PLCs) were being used; we were already focusing our efforts in those
directions.
We recognized that as
good as our programs are for developing reading and comprehension, success also requires
a comprehensive approach to helping schools make them a part of their current
instructional
curriculum.
We
have now implemented a version of this unique professional development model in
hundreds of schools / districts throughout the US with some expansion into
other countries.
Today, we are
proud to say that we continue to have hundreds of school-based projects and
currently
operate 49 Lindamood-Bell® Learning
Centers. It is with great passion and integrity
that we continue our growth to Create the Magic of Learning for
children all around the world.
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