Is Lindamood Bell effective?

Yes! The Lindamood-Bell® programs are highly effective with a variety of learning profiles, including ELL students.

What is the difference between Lindamood Bell and Orton Gillingham?

Among the best known are those in the Orton-Gillingham (OG) family of programs. The main difference between the two groups of programs is that, while OG teaches students to make sounds before they write them, Lindamood first teaches students to perceive the sounds.

Is seeing stars good for dyslexia?

The Seeing Stars program addresses the learning needs of many of our students with dyslexia. Seeing Stars develops symbol imagery, the ability to visualize letters in words. Symbol imagery is integral to independence in sounding out new words, recognizing common words, spelling, and fluent contextual reading.

How does the Seeing Stars program work?

The Seeing Stars® program develops symbol imagery – the ability to visualize sounds and letters in words – as a basis for orthographic awareness, phonemic awareness, word attack, word recognition, spelling, and contextual reading fluency.

Is the Lindamood Bell program worth the money?

Everything is very professional. Unfortunately, the cost of the program was well over $10,000 dollars for a six week summer program. The selling was a bit of a “hard sell,” since they wanted to convince me the program was worth their cost. It’s not that my child’s learning needs aren’t WORTH the money. His learning needs are priceless.

How is Lindamood-Bell used in special education?

Lindamood-Bell is an evidenced based method most often used by speech & language pathologists as it is for language remediation and phoneme identification. Phonemes precede phonics in the reading process.

How is Lindamood-Bell different from other tutoring programs?

While traditional reading and tutoring programs focus on content instruction, as mentioned, the Lindamood-Bell instruction develops the underlying sensory-cognitive processing necessary for reading and comprehension. Lindamood-Bell instruction utilizes the programs authored by its founders.

What did we do after Lindamood Bell moved away?

After Lindamood Bell, we hired a specialist to come into the school and work with him in his classroom a couple of times a week. We kept her on through middle school (when she moved away, alas), and at that point I took over. I had to reassess so many assumptions I had!