Visualizing / Verbalizing at home?
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Can anyone report success by practicing the Visualizing and Verbalizing program at home? Lindamood Bell has published the book, and I'm very interested, as the costs of the programs on site are above our budget.
Specifically, I'm looking for pointers on the organization part. How many times a week dd you invest in it, how long, what was the reception from the kid, how dd you manage siblings (w/ or w/out a specific need for the program.). Any other pointers... |
Anonymous
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Just so you know, you can find tutors certified in LMB without going through the center. (Wish we had known this b/f we plopped down big bucks.) The methods were effective.
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| Where? |
Anonymous
| I used it at home. There is a teacher guide that may be useful in explaining how to use it. I didn't have the teacher guide. I just had my son read the paragraph (website has sample pages) and answer half or more of the prompts. More than that got tedious. You would want to pace it based on what your child is able to do attention-wise, etc. Sometimes I had him answer the comprehension questions/inferencing questions and sometimes I had him write a story if he was sufficiently interested. Since the main goal is help your child develop visualization abilities, you can do it orally with your child or write their answers for them to model how they might do it independently later, so I can imagine you could have siblings participate and they can take turns describing what they visualize. Could be a really sweet family activity. Since some kids don't like writing, keeping it oral might be the best way to target the comprehension and visualization skills. The workbooks are cheap enough, it's definitely worth trying. I would only buy one and see how it goes. It should last you a few months at least. You could do it 2-4 times per week, keeping it fun and light. The topics are fun. This is one of my favorite resources to recommend. Good luck! |
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| You can buy the materials on line. I was a LMB tutor and yeah, I think their method is awesome. http://www.ganderpublishing.com/ |
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As for your question, it was one on one...
I would get the other parent to get the other kids or maybe an after school program for the other children... LMB did 4 hrs a day, but I think that's overkill. One to two hours a day or every other day I think does just as good. |
Anonymous
You could contact Strixrud Group to see if they have an LMB tutor: http://stixrudtutoring.com/find-a-tutor/tutor-directory |
Anonymous
Well, I have a 3rd grader with what is primarily ADHD, but she also has some language processing issues. And a kindergartner with what may turn out to be dyslexia. And of course, the grown ups in the home have similar afflictions -- so the program would likely benefit us all as a way of life. I plan to try for some joint sessions and see how far can go. Are there any resources where could find images and leveled reading material for these activities? Or do I have to rely on the Lexile index and scour the library for lexile appropriate books?... I'd like to do it myself, rather than with a tutor -- although the tutor may come later if I find that I struggle. Thanks... |
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I use the Scholastic Book Wizard to help level text.
http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ |
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I have no idea. I was a tutor, em, a clinician, but not a supervisor. I think the higher ups did the testing, etc. We just executed the instructions/lessons for each kid. The supers gave us the lessons. BUT in looking this stuff up, LMB, does give seminars on how to do the program for anyone willing to pay for the seminars. I think it was like $400 for three day, 8 hour seminar per day. |