Shay (and others),
Beth from FLA suggested I post on this board with my question — I’ve been posting on Parenting a Child with LD. I’m looking for a tutor who can work with my 10-year old son this summer using the LMB Visualizing and Verbaling methods for comprehension and reasoning skills. I’m in the Washington DC area. Do you know of any resources there I could check into? I went to the LMB open house this past weekend and found that the cost of testing ($675) and doing the program ($75 an hour, 2-4 hours a day, five days a week) rather daunting. I would appreciate your suggestions. Thanks. Sally
Re: LMB V&V Question for Shay
I’m not in your area but I’m a private tutor who uses the Lindamood-Bell programs. Quite a few students are referred to me by area neuropsychologists who know I’m trained in the LMB programs. You might try calling neuropsyches and private schools in your area. Ask them if they know the names of any private tutors who are trained LMB tutors.
Re: LMB V&V Question for Shay
Hi Sally, As some of you know, I was in New Orleans last week and this is the first time that I have surfed to this board since I arrived late Sunday night. There is a speech therapist consortium that use V/V and it is called Washington Reads. I know one of the therapists, Mechelle Gibs. They should be in the Washington area phone book and they have offices in Bethesda. They also use PG for reading remediation and you can probably get their phone number from Read America’s website. It is a great program and I tutor it but I am a little far from you and I have too many students as it is. I am still trying to get 48 hours out of a 24 hour day. Concerning testing, in my experience, if a child has good decoding skills but continues having problems with comprehension, V/V would help. I truly believe that everyone could benefit from this program. I wish that I could have had this program when I went to college, I certainly wouldn’t have had to study as much. When I was trained, the trainer said that many of her clients were pre-med and pre-law students because they have to have high comprehension scores inorder to get into med and law school. I teach this as study skills to all of my basic skills students.
Shay...RA conference
Hi, Shay,
I really did look for you in New Orleans but I never saw your name tag! I thought the Thurs. night event would be the best time to find you, but I looked around and never saw your name. Since you weren’t staying in the same hotel, I couldn’t look you up that way either. I was in the Word Work workshop all day Friday and then had to leave Saturday because of my daughter’s prom. I very much enjoyed the workshop but it was a lot of information to absorb in just one day. I do think the Word Work manual looks pretty easy to use, though.
I am hoping to take V/V in June in Charlotte.
Janis
Re: Shay...RA conference
Hi Janis, I was looking for you as well. They, for whatever reason, put my real name on the name tag, Sharrene. I don’t use that now, too long and hard to remember. I didn’t get there Thursday night due to our plane sitting on the tarmac at Dulles for an hour while we were having our first storm in 8 months. My luck! I was looking for you on Friday, but they never let you out with us during the day. Could you email me privately with your phone number so that I can call you?
Sally,
Would your son work with you? Many parents have bought the V/V kit and done it themselves. I am either going to the training or buy the training videos this summer. Your other strategy could be to pay the training cost of a special ed. teacher you know and make a deal for her to tutor your son for maybe $35 or so an hour. If his decoding and basic reading skills are good and you know that comprehension is the only problem, then I would agree that the full testing is unnecessary. I would think that there would be some V/V tutors in your area, though.
Janis