The resource room teacher was trained in Lindamood last summer and has been using it with my 9 yr 4th grade ds. He seems to be fighting it and it seems to be very slow in remediating his decoding issues (he’s dyslexic).
Could I have some feedback from parents or teachers who have used it. It seems slow and too late to focus on this. My ds, despite weak decoding skills, reads on a beginning 4th grade level and is currently reading Harry Potter. He seemed to make more progress last year when the teacher used Megawords.
Thanks for your feedback. You can email me privately as well at [email protected]
Our PPT is Monday morning and I think I want to ask that they stop using Lindamood.
Re: Lindamood feedback please
We did LMB in Chicago. It worked well for decoding but did not seem to help with comprehension or letter reversals etc. The fact the provider is in a public school might be more a delivery problem than a LMB problem.
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My son has been doing the Lindamood Bell Seeing Stars program (15min /day) since November. This is a structured program emphasizing symbol imagery for sight words, spelling and decoding syllables with phonetic-rules based (similar to Orton Gillingham) structure. When combined with a good comprehension program (Lindamood has the Visualization/Verbalizing program), this is a good program for decoding and encoding.
My son has done very well with it - especially for editing, where he is applying rules and strategies to correct his own misspelling. It has not helped his reversals at all.
The LMB LPS program is much more basic and emphasizes developing phonemic awareness almost exclusively. I understand it is very good for children with severe auditory / phonemic awareness issues as it teaches the child to ‘feel’ sounds that they otherwise may not be able to hear/process (training the articulatory system).
Re: Lindamood feedback please
My son has been doing the Lindamood Bell Seeing Stars program (15min /day) since November. This is a structured program emphasizing symbol imagery for sight words, spelling and decoding syllables with phonetic-rules based (similar to Orton Gillingham) structure. When combined with a good comprehension program (Lindamood has the Visualization/Verbalizing program), this is a good program for decoding and encoding.
My son has done very well with it - especially for editing, where he is applying rules and strategies to correct his own misspelling. It has not helped his reversals at all.
The LMB LPS program is much more basic and emphasizes developing phonemic awareness almost exclusively. I understand it is very good for children with severe auditory / phonemic awareness issues as it teaches the child to ‘feel’ sounds that they otherwise may not be able to hear/process (training the articulatory system).
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Thanks so much for the feedback. It reinforced my belief that Lindamood (LPS) wasn’t the best choice for my son. It’s a fine program but my son only receives a limited amount of help from the resource room teacher, and I want the maximum benefit from this time. And I think Megawords is a better choice for him now.
Predictably the resource teacher wasn’t happy when I commented during the PPT that I wanted them to use Megawords instead of LPS. We’ll see what they end up doing for the rest of this year….Megawords or LPS.
I tried to get a hold of the local PG tuitor but have had no luck the two times I’ve called. So we’ve decided to put our son in a summer program at a local school for dyslexics. I’ll be interested to see what material they use and what progress he makes with different instruction and instructors.
Once again…thanks for your input.
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Dear Debbie,
My son, who had auditory and visual processing problems, has been doing a combo of Lips and Seeing Stars. He has had great sucess with this program. Of course, one program can never be the answer for every child.
One thing to keep in mind: In the LiPs program, something like the first 40 hours are dedicated to just sounds. The actual reading doesn’t even start untill the sounds are SOLID. Once the reading started, the progress was rapid for my son. This made the first 40 hours a nervous time of wait-and-see for me. But it turned out that this type of ‘going back to basics and getting it right’ was just what my son needed. He needed a solid base to work from, and LiPs gave him that.
Maybe your son is still working on the sounds? If that is the case, you would not see much real improvement until he moves to the next step. Just a thought.
—Lisaa
I would switch him to Phono-Graphix (http://www.readamerica.net). It teaches decoding skills much faster than LMB.
Most schools don’t have Phono-Graphix. You can either look for a certified PG tutor (email or call based on website info) or tutor him yourself using Reading Reflex — the book written specifically for parents. This is not as daunting as it may sound! The book does an excellent job of explaining the approach and the reasoning behind it, then lays out all the lessons and procedures in a very clear fashion. Many of us parents have had great success using this method at home.
Gigi, resident reading expert at the vegsource website, uses PG to teach basic and advanced decoding skills. If a child needs more, she then follows up with Megawords, which provides a lot of multi-syllable word practice.
The fact that your son was able to make progress last year with Megawords indicates to me that he already has basic decoding skills and just needs instruction in advanced decoding. A certified PG tutor could probably provide this in 6 hours or so.
Mary