School Services Projects: Special Education Project Results

 

In 2004, Lindamood-Bell partnered with the California Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) to provide intensive, sensory-cognitive intervention for students on IEP’s. The SELPA serves twelve area school districts and approximately 12,000 students. Through this collaboration, Lindamood-Bell established an on-site learning center, centrally located, and the SELPA identified students to participate in the program. Over the 2004-05 school year, three instructional sessions were scheduled and nearly 70 students received intensive, Lindamood-Bell® instruction. Students were placed into small groups of 2-4 students with similar learning profiles, and attended the learning center for three hours daily to focus on reading and comprehension skills. All of the following results from pre- to post-test are statistically significant (p < .05).

DecodingPre-Post

 

ComprehensionPre-Post

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Further evidence of the effectiveness of the Lindamood-Bell® programs is seen in the percentage of students who have exited Special Education services. For example, one elementary school in Idaho began implementing the Lindamood-Bell® model in its reading center in 1998, and approximately 40% of the students have exited out of special education.