Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lindamood bell reading programs are multisensory and focus on visual skills and memorizaton to help children become better readers. It focuses less on phonics and more on memorization, but can definitely work for some kids.

Just chiming in to say that this isn’t entirely true. Children memorize only common phonemes and some sight words that do not follow the rules they have learned so far. As an Orton-Gillingham based, multisensory program, it’s phonics based. I think when people hear or read “memorization,” it can cause them to link helpful programs to disfavored whole-language programs.

Yes, it is a great mix of phonics and words that don’t fit the normal rules so the kids can do both. IME, my kid spent very little time on the actual sight words. Most of the tutoring time is spent figuring out how our language works.

The comprehension
Program was outstanding as well—some kids don’t naturally picture what they read in their heads (mine didn’t) so comprehension was difficult and math word problems impossible for him before. Now he is doing very well.