Lindamood-Bell System

> I Need to ask my school if they inplement the Lindamood-Bell system along with the Wilson system, My child needs to work on letter sounds understanding the abstract and relationship of letter sounds, he reads

Good luck on getting the school to do this! First you have to get them to send someone in the school to get trained (which is expensive) and even then you’d have to convince them it was necessary which they will probably not be convinced of. School districts are not very good on reading and getting them see that is usually not possible.

>My school will most likely say no, we use the Wilson system.(because I know for a fact they do) but I know he needs the Lindammod system also.

In fact, you will be luckier than most because I’ll bet that most school districts don’t use any proven approach. Wilson at least is a proven approach with dyslexic kids (though older ones— perhaps 4th grade and up the older the better really).

>The will most likey say We don’t use the system but we do the same implementation as the Lindamood system. My question is does anyone know of another system that teaches the same way as the Lindamood-Bell?

There are some school districts in the US where everyone is trained in it. There is a thread in the “Teaching Reading” about teaching dyslexics. Might check out that forum.

>Also, how is the Wilson different than the GillianOten. I know Iam not spelling that right.

Well I guess that Barbara Wilson (like Rowena Spalding, etc.) was a student of Orton and/or Gillingham (OG). I’d say that Wilson is an off shoot of OG. There are similarities between most of the OG offshoots— use of multisensory imput (tracing, writing in sand, handwriting, etc); emphasis on teaching at the phoneme level (a, ae, ow, ck, etc.); decodable text (that is text that is readable to the child without memorizing); etc etc. There are differences in age that the program is geared for (Wilson tends to be for older students); ability to be used by bigger groups; the type of multisensory imput used; etc etc etc. I have not decided at this point if some are better than others. I have heard this however.

Oh yeah, can’t find where but you asked if there was something like LMB but cheaper. Fraid not. The Association Method is probably similar as it also came from the roots of speech and hearing rather than reading.
I think it is not cheaper.

You may be pretty much stuck with a. finding a tutor to teach the LMB if your kid really needs it (ie can’t hear the sounds well enough to be successful with Wilson— might just do fine with it). Or b. taking a seminar yourself and working with your own kid if you can or sending someone else thru it instead.

Sorry I can’t be more help.

—des

Thanks again for all your help.
Willow