reading comprehension

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I am new to the board and feeling hopeful that you can help. I live in Middleburg, Florida and am trying to find a reputable LMB tutor for my 9 year old son. He was diagnosed with expressive/receptive language disorder and CAPD when he was 6 years old. We have gone through FFW and interactive metronome therapy through a couple of very qualified speech therapists. The speech therapist recommended V/V to help with his reading comprehension. So, this is where I am now—trying to locate someone. I am hoping to be able to attend the LMB conference in Orlando—but it isn’t until April. My son is doing well in Math, but I’m exhausted as I try to help him improve in vocabulary and reading comprehension. He can decode any word—can read the words, but a lot of the time cannot fully comprehend what he has just read.

Thanks so much for your help

Submitted by Janis on Sat, 09/11/2004 - 10:30 PM

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The April Orlando dates are training workshops. So are you wanting to do the tutoring yourself?

If you are, you could start him out in a program similar to V/V called IdeaChain by Mindprime www.mindprime.com. It is more scripted than V/V and probably easier for a parent to do especially without training. Or, you could buy IdeaChain and hire a general LD tutor to do it with him. These options would probably cost you less, too. (But I do love V/V and have been trained, just FYI).

Janis

Submitted by tashby40 on Tue, 09/14/2004 - 2:46 AM

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Thanks so much, Janis. I will take a look at idea chain. I am interested in being trained for V/V but to specifically help my child—not to become a tutor. I just am desparate to make sure he continues to move forward. Are the training seminars really good, or would it be just as effective to order the v/v video tapes?

Thanks so much for your help!
Teresa

Submitted by des on Tue, 09/14/2004 - 5:50 AM

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You can do it without the training. But still I would advice it, it can be confusing. But there are a number of us who have done it without the training. I’m not saying you wouldn’t do better with it. LMB videos, at least the one I saw, was more a demo than a real teaching video. Still it was pretty useful to see someone doing it right. It was gratifying to see I wasn’t entirely off. :-)

IdeaChain is much more user friendly, it’s my understanding. I think they are the same basic premise, that a child has to visualize to comprehend well. They also start at a picture level and go up. I don’t know as much about Idea Chain as I have just seen the webpage.

The idea is you have the child visualize specifically at the picture level, then the word, sentence and finally paragraph and page level.
Even good visualizers for other things (ie drawing) may not really do this for reading or visualize too much clutter or something like this.

—des

Submitted by Janis on Tue, 09/14/2004 - 10:26 PM

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I loved all my Lindamood-Bell trainings, but the 2 days of V/V training is over $400. I couldn’t justify spending that for teaching one child. As Des said, the videos are teaching demos, and not really training tapes, but they are pretty expensive, too. I think if it were me, I’d just do Idea Chain and hold off on V/V for now.

Janis

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/15/2004 - 2:24 PM

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You might try posting this same message on Schwablearning.org. There was a woman who used to post here who I know also posted on the schwab site who had a LMB tutor in the Jacksonville area (which I think is the area where you live?) Maybe she still lurks there. I know she loved the tutor. Now the tutor used LIPS so I am not sure if she also knows V and V but you never know.

Beth

Submitted by KP on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 9:02 PM

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Hi!

I am a former Clinical Director with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes(R). Although I am no longer affiliated with the company, I am trained and experienced in all the programs. I have also done trainings and workshops.

I am new to Florida (via Washington, DC), so I am not sure where Middleburg is in relation to where I live (Tampa), but I just wanted to let you know I am in Florida and often travel to on-site locations.

If I am not nearby, please feel free to contact me if only to bounce ideas off of-and if I learn of anyone closer to you than I may be, I will be sure to put them in touch. In the meantime, feel free to view my website at www.kpalomino.com.

I wish you and your son all the best.

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