Thanks for the response! I introduced a new topic because my response would get buried and you may not see it. Anyway, my question is, what’s the reason behind having 4 rotating teachers? To prevent boredom? To have a team approach? I’m sure that team meetings are done by the 4 teachers daily? Do the 4 teachers contribute to the lesson plan?
We have been referring the parents to go to the LMB clinics during the summer break and they come back very pleased. We just can’t do the intensive help during the school day.
Re: to L. Starr re Lindamood parents
as a parent i at first did not understand the reasoning of the lmbell clinic to use a different instructor each hour of the 4 hours per day session. i felt my child - becasue he had suffered so much confusion and loss of self esteem in learning to read - needed to “connect” to one instructor and develop a strong supportive relationship in order to get him through the painful hours of finally learning to read.
after 600 hours of 1-1 at two different lm bell clinics over 2 years, i will say the change of instructor each hour has been fine. he had his favorites and there were some he just did not like. but what is good about changing each hour is being exposed to different people - the child does not get as bored - and each instructor can add their input to how the child is progressing. it is like another way to be accountable for the program helping this child progress. the individual clinicians that rotate and work with the child each day are overseen by that child’s consultant who also sits in on sessions or does a session with the child a few times a week, or even daily. then they all meet weekly. this really does allow for them to monitor the child’s progress in a different light than if the child worked with the same person each and every hour.
it is a hard concept for people to grasp, but it is effective in the lmbell clinic setting.
It worked for us
If my son weren’t going to a special school this fall we’d be doing more Lindamood this summer. He did aprox. 68 hours over the winter break and the change was amazing.
The 4 teachers for us was a way of keeping everyone fresh. Even after only 4 weeks there he felt he knew the whole staff. In NYC where we live, the teachers were all young cool college grads. Not (as my son put it ) “professional reading teachers” which was just fine by him. He’s seen so many middle aged female therapists in his life that I think it was a nice change to work with some “dudes”. It felt more like camp than therapy.
I think the 4 teachers pretty much do the same thing but the change is keep the kiddos from getting sick of lookin’ at the same ole’ puss (remember this 1 to 1) for four long hours. I don’t think that the teachers by themselves fiugre ou the lesson plans- they have a over-see-er (a “clinician i think it’s called, that reviews daily stuff, and makes plans for nxt day)