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Find a Lindamood-Bell Learning Center near you. We have 50 Learning Centers and several Seasonal Intensive Learning Clinic locations throughout the US, UK, and Australia.
An accurate Learning Ability Evaluation is the first step in teaching children or adults to learn to their potential. Our standardized battery of tests can pinpoint each individual's specific strengths and weaknesses.
Our sensory-cognitive instruction has proven effective for children, Pre-K through 12th grade. We have various types of instruction available to ensure that we meet the specific learning needs of every child, at any age.
Come to an Open House or Coffee Hour to learn more about our programs and instruction. We also sponsor and participate in various off-site events such as conferences and fundraisers.
Children and adults come to our Learning Centers reporting difficulties with reading, comprehension, math, following directions, retaining information, expressing ideas, and more.
Our sensory-cognitive instruction has proven effective for adults over the age of 18. Whether experiencing difficulties in college, in the workplace, or at home, we have various types of instruction to ensure that we meet the specific needs of every adult, at any age.
With specials such as testing discounts, early enrollment savings, reduced-rate instructional programs, and more, Lindamood-Bell offers various ways to save throughout the year.
Lindamood-Bell Learning Centers can help individuals of all ages improve the underlying sensory-cognitive processes needed to become confident, self-correcting, independent learners - both in and out of the classroom.
Because our process-based instruction focuses on each individual's learning needs, our programs are effective for all students, including those previously diagnosed with dyslexia, hyperlexia, ADHD, CAPD, and ASD.
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Our Professional Development and School Partnership models address the underlying skills needed for success with Common Core Standards.
Find guidance on how and when to register for our Professional Development Workshops, as well as information pertaining to credit options, refunds, and cancellations.
We have established a comprehensive and customized professional development plan for the key instructional leaders at our School Partnerships.
Lindamood-Bell Workshops present research-validated programs that develop the underlying skills for reading, spelling, language comprehension, critical thinking, and math. Our workshops are appropriate for educators, administrators, researchers, and parents.
Stay up to date on the latest news from all of the Lindamood-Bell Professional Development projects and School Partnerships around the world.
Our model of high-quality instruction, rigorous professional development, and comprehensive program monitoring and evaluation ensures that student academic performance is improved and sustained on a large scale.
As a Turnaround provider, Lindamood-Bell is poised to assist low-performing schools to dramatically improve academic performance.
Find a Lindamood-Bell Professional Development Workshop near you.
Seeing Stars® and Visualizing and Verbalizing® programs officially endorsed by CASE.
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Nanci Bell and Patricia Lindamood co-founded Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in 1986.
We believe, passionately, that children and adults can be taught to read and comprehend.
Founded in 1986, we have since surpassed a number of exciting milestones in our continuous drive to improve on the quality and scope of our instructional programs, as well as the numbers and types of students we are able to reach.
Our research-validated instruction is constantly improving. Through continuous analysis and extensive training, we make sure to deliver the most effective, reliable, and consistent instruction to meet each individual's specific learning needs.
Read about the experience of Lindamood-Bell instruction from real students, parents, and teachers.
Our corporate headquarters, our Learning Centers, and our School Partnerships are active members of a large variety of communities, all over the world. And, we do our best to help make each and every one of them a better place.
Lindamood-Bell® research-validated programs.
View Lindamood-Bell® stories and testimonials.
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Each year, we publish a report containing the averaged results of the thousands of students who receive instruction at our permanent Learning Centers and Seasonal Intensive Learning Clinics.
A large variety of researchers, educational and developmental institutions, and scientific publications have analyzed and written about the effectiveness and application of our instructional philosophy and programs.
Every year, we present our instructional programs and philosophy in countless educational, developmental, and research-oriented events ranging from small, local panels to large, international conferences.
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Learn about our last International Conference here.
Lindamood-Bell in the News.
We are constantly participating in Learning Center events, school partnerships, research projects, conferences, and more. To keep the local communities involved and informed, we announce all of these events to the press and post the announcements here.
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The Seeing Stars® Program
Symbol Imagery for Fluency, Orthography, Sight Words, and Spelling
Problem
Buzz has reading difficulties. He has learned phonics and can sound out words, but his phonetic processing is slow. His word attack skills are significantly better, but his word identification and reading fluency have not improved at the same rate. Despite seeing a few reading tutors for help, trying a few reading programs, and generally having no difficulties with comprehension, Buzz continues to experience the frustrations of a struggling reader.
Cause
Buzz's reading difficulties are very common. Many struggling readers experience problems with establishing sight words and contextual fluency. These kinds of reading difficulties are not disabilities - they are symptoms. And, the root cause of these symptoms is usually a weakness in symbol imagery.
Symbol imagery is the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words. Many children and adults who are thought to have reading disabilities are able to sound-out (decode) and comprehend words. However, like Buzz, these individuals struggle with difficulties in recognizing the visual (orthographic) patterns of letters. Symbol imagery not only allows readers to recognize and sound-out letters, but also to recognize and retain the orthographic patterns of letters and whole words (sight words) that do not play by the standard rules of decoding.
A weakness in symbol imagery can often result in difficulties with decoding, spelling, word recognition, and reading fluency. These reading problems often manifest through the following symptoms:
- Difficulty with word recognition (often resulting in inaccurate guessing)
- Difficulty with spelling (often phonetically accurate, though orthographically incorrect)
- Difficulty with visual memory
- Difficulty with contextual fluency
- Difficulty with reading comprehension
- Slow reading rate
- Symptoms of Dyslexia
Solution
The Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words and Spelling program helps struggling readers develop the sensory-cognitive function of symbol imagery. Unlike most reading programs, Seeing Stars instruction directly applies symbol imagery to sight word development, contextual fluency, spelling, and increasing the speed and stability of phonemic awareness. Students in the Seeing Stars program move through a series of steps - from single consonants/vowels to multisyllabic and contextual reading - to develop the imagery-language connection for competency in written language.
It is common for children and adults to gain years in reading, reading fluency, and spelling in just weeks of intensive instruction. Developing symbol imagery is necessary to becoming an independent reader, which is necessary to becoming a proficient learner in any subject. And, the process-based instruction provided by the Seeing Stars program has proven successful for individuals exhibiting symptoms of dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, CAPD, and other learning difficulties.
Lindamood-Bell Learning Process is not affiliated with any third parties.
We are the only provider endorsed and licensed by the authors of the Lindamood-Bell® programs.
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