Is anyone familiar with this product, which I came across at www.understandmore.com. It appears to be a home study program for teaching visualization and verbalization. I have been told that teaching Lindamood Bell’s V/V at home is very difficult. This program seems to be aimed at just that—at $250 or so it would definitely be cheaper than LMB or a SLP who does V/V. Does anyone have experience with it? Thanks for any input.
Re: Ideachain--Homestyle V/V?
I don’t have personal experience with this, but a couple of posters over at vegsource said that Ideachain is laid out in a very step-by-step, lesson-by-lesson fashion and comes complete with all materials (such as pictures). They said that V/V typically gives one example in a chapter, and then it is up to you to conduct the lessons, find pictures, etc.
It probably comes down to what you feel most comfortable with. Some people are not in a position to spend the extra money for Ideachain when V/V accomplishes about the same thing. Others feel the need for the lesson-by-lesson layout and appreciate not having to find pictures to illustrate the lessons, and feel Ideachain is worth the extra money.
I have seen a number of posts from parents here who have successfully used the V/V book at home without training. At least one poster over at vegsource, who had used both, said that Ideachain was much easier to use and she preferred it.
Mary
Thanks
Kathleen and Mary—Thanks for the feedback. The vegsource.com thread was very helpful. Now, that I know about it, I’m surprised that I haven’t seen Ideachain discussed here before.
V/V Book Has Pictures
I’m coming a little late to this thread, having just discovered it. I tutor in all of Lindamood-Bell’s programs. I agree that V/V is the easiest one to use at home. The book is very simple to read and understand. There are a series of pictures in the back of the book; all you need to do is to color them in. They’re very basic coloring book type pictures and the coloring should be very scantily done. It’s quick and easy. You just need a handful of them. Additionally, you really won’t be using the pictures for very long in all likelihood but will be moving on to known noun imaging, fantasy images, object imaging right away. They take no materials other than your cutting up the 12 structure words out of the book (or writing each word on a separate index card). Again, very easy and cheap.
If your child allows you to work with her/him, then by all means use this system. Kids that are used to their parents working with them already should easily love this program; I’ve found it’s far and away the most fun program of all. I enjoy it myself. And, by my having to remember everything the child has said, it’s helped my own working memory enormously. Because it’s a fun program to work with, even if your child isn’t accustomed to you working with him/her, you might still have an easy time of it. It’s also very easy to support on a daily basis in everyday life - “Hmmm, I can’t get a good picture in my mind of what you’re telling me. Help me out”, etc.
Re: V/V Book Has Pictures
My son has participated in the LMB LIPS program very successfully(we commuted to Illinois this summer) I am wondering if there is anyone trained in LMB in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. We are looking to continue this program but at present I don’t know how to find a tutor with this training. Any suggestions or information would be appreciated.
Kathy
Several summers ago, I enrolled my son in a local program (not a franchise Lindamood Bell, but all their instructors are trained in LMB methods). I insisted on sitting in on most of the lessons. This is not rocket science. I got the book and discontinued lessons after a few weeks and worked with my son from the book. For reasons personal to our mother-son relationship, the tutoring process with us was not easy, but if your child is willing to be tutored by you, I would suggest it. While other LMB programs (LIPS) might be better done by an experienced person, I think VV is easy to do at home. (I felt vindicated in this decision as I overheard in the waiting room a woman who had answered an ad in the paper and after a minimal amount of training, was showing up for her first day of work at this reading tutoring clinic — I knew my 10 hours or so of observation with my son and his tutor was enough to get me started and it was). I will say, however, that reading comprehension was not the goal of VV that summer. My son had a significant expressive language delay, and VV was the ticket to more fluent speech for him. Kathleen