Linda-mood Bell and ABeCeDarian reading programs

ABeCeDarian is very similar in approach to Phono-Graphix. PG is explained very well in the book “Reading Reflex” by McGuiness, widely available in libraries and bookstores. If you read the first three chapters in that book, you will have a pretty good understanding of the philosophy behind the approach. There is a Yahoo email list for abecedarian. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com, create a sign-on name, and search on abecedarian to join.

If you go to http://www.lindamoodbell.com, I believe you can email for a free information packet. When I did this several years ago, there was a short video demonstration of LiPS. I think that “Seeing Stars” would be their program that would be more comparable to Spire, however.

LMB is going to bring in more speech kinds of things than SPIRE, but is also firmly based on Orton-Gillingham structures and principles (very systematic, very multisensory, very structured). I’d check out all the traiining and do whatever I could get the school to pay for :-) SOmetimes if the school asks, a company will send somebody.

I use ABeCeDarian and love it. Not sure there are any trainings in Michigan as yet however, there is another PG spin off in MIchigan.

http://www.ebli.org/

Talk to Nora. SHe has done trainings in Grand Rapids, Flushing and other cities there. I had a chance to visit her clinic there while I was Michigan because I spend my summers in Traverse City. :) to get out of the desert. SHe is located in FLushing, MIchigan.

Michelle

If you check out EBLI’s website be sure to see the 8 minute video. I think that Nora’s program EBLI is pretty solid. I have Phono-graphix, ABeCeDarian, EBLI, LindaMood Bell, and other reading programs on my shelf. If I were in Michigan, I’d definately check out EBLI. IF you check out her website you will see a ton of trainings coming up. She seems to have found the way to get a Phono-graphix type program into general education/special education classrooms with teacher buyin and increased reading scores.

When I visited her clinic in Michigan I got to sit behind the two way mirrors and talk to trained teachers and parents. They had wonderful things to say. I was particularly amazed at how she got teachers to use the program. PHono-graphix, while a great program, is such a hard sell to teachers because it is not easy to figure out at all. The people who sell PG don’t really have a way for teachers to jump in what I call a diamond in the rough program. Too hard, not packaged in a teacher friendly manner at all. Teachers don’t have time to put spend hours putting stuff together and it took me hours to get my PG kit together and to figure it out. Nora’s program came done. I’m sure she’s improved it since then.

I don’t know anything about SPIRE.

Check out EBLI and also where they’ve trained. What I like is she trains then returns a month later. If you get training, this is helpful.. Many teachers get a new training and then don’t implement without some more help. For whatever reason it is hard to get teachers to change.

Good luck. You don’t hear much about EBLI on these boards but….If I were in Michigan, I’d check it out since there are so many schools using it.

Michelle AZ

And… suggest they drop in here and say howdy! Then people will have heard of it :-)