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Lindamood-Bell® to be featured in PBS Special "The Secret Life of the Brain"

Lindamood-Bell Press Release
January 17, 2002

 

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA– Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®, an internationally-renowned leader in educational instruction and research, will be featured in an upcoming PBS special, The Secret Life of the Brain, which explores radical new ways of mapping and facilitating learning.

Beginning Tuesday, January 22 at 9 p.m. EST (check local listings), PBS will air its new 5-part series The Secret Life of the Brain, which will explore the amazing new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience study. This revolutionary new perspective offers new hope for dramatic advances in the areas of addiction, depression, and learning disorders, as well as for sufferers of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease.

Lindamood-Bell®, a pioneer in the research and development of learning programs that have helped thousands of children and adults learn to read, spell and comprehend language despite often significant learning challenges, is the focus of Episode 2: The Child's Brain - Syllable From Sound, which airs Tuesday, January 22 at 10 p.m. EST.

This episode of the series details Lindamood-Bell®'s involvement in a five-year research study with Georgetown University's Center for the Study of Learning, funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). In this collaborative study on reading and behavioral intervention, functional MRI brain-imaging techniques were used to measure the effectiveness of the Lindamood-Bell™ programs, which focus on sensory-cognitive issues surrounding language and literacy development, including the symptoms of dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, and autism.

Lindamood-Bell®, one of the leading educational institutions in the world with over thirty Learning Centers nationwide and a new center in London, England, works with individuals of all ages in intensive one-to-one instruction to develop and improve sensory-cognitive processing for language and literacy skills. Student gains are significant, life changing, and often happen after only a few weeks of intensive treatment. The organization also offers professional development workshops and a program for classroom instruction.