Hi,
I just returned from a training in LIPS from the Stratford Foundation by Lyn Seres. It was great. My son has been using LIPS in speech therapy since April and during the summer it was 5 days a week for an hour. He made great gains. I also was working with him at home everyday for 30 - 1 hour too.
I thought LIPS would be too hard to implement in the classroom but after the training I was totally amazed. I spoke to a few teachers that had been using it for about a year. They felt it was the missing link and that it started lower than Phonics. Tons of phonemic awareness. There was a lot of games for the classroom and could also be used one on one that make it fun. They said that the kids ask for their LIPS time.
Has anyone here used it in the classroom? If so I’d love to hear what you experience has been. The website for the Stratford Foundation is www.multisensorytraining.com . The training was put on by the Louisiana Board of Education. And since I’m a former teacher they allowed me to attend. It would be well worth looking into your district having them come and do a training for your district or region.
Again any experience you’ve had with LIPS and would like to share I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Diane
I haven’t. I am a crazed tutor out in the boonies and have been using LiPs with two students who were functioning too low for OG, which I am trained in. Anyway I haven’t had the training (not something I’d recommend necessarily but somewhat doable what with about 100 hours with the book and materials). So anyway, I got one of the videos on working with vowels. It was really interesting as half the video was different full classroom implementations. The kids were really turned on and excited. They showed a song that the teacher was doing with them at the end.
These are not really instructional videos in the usual sense, more like demo tapes. I really enjoyed it, so you might too.
I don’t know anyone here who is doing LiPS in a group situation. We have a few people who were trained in it, but I think they have mostly worked in a clinical situation. I have had really great results with it.
I think LMB has used it in high risk situations , ie the schools in Alaska with high percentages of native kids with FAS, etc.
—des