The Imagery-Language Connection Takes Center Stage at Conferences Worldwide
April 16, 2019
Conference attendees around the world are learning about the important role that the Imagery-Language Connection plays in creating successful readers. We are honored to have Lindamood-Bell representatives sharing ground-breaking research and results gained through our programs at conferences this spring/early summer. Here’s a recap of recent and upcoming presentations: Recent Conferences LD Institute Montreal 44th […]
2018 Highlights
December 28, 2018
School Partners Teachers from 62 districts were trained in our programs, including 300 teachers from the Fort Smith Public School District in Arkansas. The school partnership with Fort Smith resulted in significant improvements in reading for students with reading difficulties, including dyslexia. LEARN MORE Global Expansion With the introduction of new online workshops provided […]
Support for Wounded Veterans through
Operation Surf
November 8, 2018
Last month, Gander Publishing had the honor of sponsoring Operation Surf’s “Amazing Surf Adventures.” The weeklong event, held every October at beaches across the Central Coast, serves as a tribute to military men and women who have sacrificed to protect our country’s freedom. Throughout the week, wounded active-duty and veteran service members from various branches […]
Fort Smith Students Make Gains with Seeing Stars® Instruction
August 28, 2018
Fort Smith School District in Arkansas is seeing promising results from its partnership with Lindamood-Bell during the 2017-18 school year. The partnership was initiated to address the needs of struggling readers including those with dyslexia. In an intensive intervention focused on the needs of students previously diagnosed with dyslexia, students receiving Seeing Stars® instruction made […]
A Student Sees the Stars
May 31, 2018
This story was shared by Sonya Bledsoe, a Special Education teacher in Tennessee who was trained in the Seeing Stars program. I started working with Sydney when she was a first grader. She was a quiet, solemn child. Nothing came easy for her. The alphabet and sight words seemed to be a foreign language. I […]
New Dyslexia Research on Seeing Stars Intervention Published in Nature Communications
July 3, 2018
Exciting new dyslexia research, titled “Rapid and Widespread White Matter Plasticity During an Intensive Reading Intervention,” was published this month in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The study, from the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at University of Washington (UW), examined growth in reading skills and white matter in school-aged, struggling readers. Diffusion MRI […]
Help Your Students Love History!
May 1, 2018
Like many of you, I’ve had the privilege of teaching children and adults over the years. Time and again, when I asked my students what they visualized for history, I was met with a blank stare. Not only did these students have difficulty visualizing and comprehending language, but they also had enormous information gaps. Many […]
High Flyer Spotlight: Lindamood-Bell for Schools Division
April 20, 2018
What are the real keys to success in helping schools improve, and sustain, effective teaching and learning practices? Through its partnerships with schools, Lindamood-Bell is helping to identify those factors to improve student outcomes. Chris Mayberry, Manager of Development for Lindamood-Bell® for Schools, recently paid a visit to Cañon City School District in Colorado to […]
Celebrate World Autism Month
April 10, 2018
Every April, Autism Speaks kicks off World Autism Month with the United Nations-sanctioned World Autism Awareness Day. On April 2, hundreds of thousands of landmarks, buildings, homes, and communities around the world “light it up blue” in recognition of people living with autism. This day is followed by autism-friendly events and educational activities that take […]
Learning Leap
February 28, 2018
My daughter struggled with identifying letters and matching them to sounds. She repeated Kindergarten twice to help her catch up on both reading and writing. During a parent/teacher conference, her teacher showed me her rendition of the alphabet. My daughter had stopped at the letter B and just drew faces in the boxes where each […]
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