Our most-likely-soon-to-be provider of this pgm., an audiologist, says that PACE incorporates elements of Lindamood-Bell pgms. such as Seeing Stars its developers were familiar with PG. Can anyone who is familiar with PACE and Lindamood-Bell comment on this statement & the degree to which it is so?
Thanks.
Jan L.
We have used PACE and for a short time had a private LMB tutor. We also have done PG—including an intensive at age 7 and 10. At the beginning of PACE, there are some exercises that use mouth positions that are similar to LMB—but not with the same intensity. I also don’t think the PACE people are trained as well as LMB with this aspect (I went through provider training). But not all children require this. PACE does tons of auditory processing work which LMB does also. PG does less. I have not used the MTC program but understand it does incorporate elements of PG as well. MTC uses lots of drill, which helps with automaticity, but is boring. It also is disconnected from text—while PG works to have kids decoding in context. In our experience LMB, was more similar to MTC—worked on decoding in isolation from text. (I emphasize in our experience because this was a private tutor—not clinic—and I ended up not being happy with her.)
I know another parent who said that the clinic she went to was getting similar results from both PACE and MTC and LMB. There was a paper recently published that found similar results with LMB and PG at similar intensity (not randomized controlled trials though).
PACE works on visualization in general but not as specifically on letters as Seeing STars does. Now the LMB people would say this isn’t the same thing but perhaps the work on visualization combined with drill produces the same effect.
Personally, I think it is a matter of what is available to you, with what people, and at what cost. A lot is in the implementation so I personally would go for the best person. Also, there is the issue of what fits with your life. They are all good programs.
Beth