The inability of some students to learn to read, or read well, sometimes has nothing to do with how hard they try. Nor is it because they don’t want to concentrate. And it’s not because they don’t find the course matter interesting.
At Weston Family Psychology, we know that sometimes it’s just how they’re naturally wired.
Some brains don’t allow students to process information that’s right in front of them. A few children are naturally less able to understand the complexities of even simple math, or the nuances of language. Maybe they can hear, but they can’t associate the sounds with images, or even the simplest sounds with letters. Words that appear one way to the rest of us appear to them with letters out of order or missing.
We understand that your child also might lack an innate ability to understand math and its concepts. How stymied children must feel to get mixed up by such basics as what’s “bigger” and what’s “smaller,” or what’s “more” and what’s “less.”
The written word for these children is confusing and downright overwhelming.
We supply the map. Lindamood-Bell learning programs, properly taught, let them find their way.
Overcoming Learning Disabilities
Weston Family Psychology assists students who need help learning to read, to write better, and to solve math problems. Learning deficiencies make academic success difficult for the child, and frustrating not just for the child but also for parents.
At Weston Family Psychology, here’s what we do:
Evaluate children or adults to discover exactly what their learning disorders are.
Devise an instructional intervention to advance your child’s skills and help them overcome their deficiencies.
Apply proven teaching methods and programs to help your child thrive.
Lindamood-Bell Programs Improve Comprehension, Reading and Math Skills
Wouldn’t it be great to see your child reading a book just for fun? Wouldn’t you love to hear your son or daughter saying, “Hey, listen to this,” and then reading aloud to you? The Lindamood-Bell learning processes used by Weston Family Psychology help students do more than earn better grades. The programs help students learn real life skills.
We use the Lindamood-Bell Seeing Stars program to improve decoding ability, word attack skills, and reading fluency. Traditional reading texts and teaching methods don’t attack the underlying learning deficiencies in your child the way Seeing Stars does. Nanci Bell designed the program to trigger students’ ability to form mental images of letters. The ability to mentally image letters allows ours brains to hold on to words we’ve seen, improves automatic word recognition, and ultimately paves the way to fluent reading.
LiPS focuses on speech/articulation/phonological awareness. This would be appropriate for a student who isn’t ready for seeing stars. We can incorporate LiPS concepts if necessary but LiPS students are typically more severe and we likely wouldn’t be a good fit for them
The Lindamood-Bell On Cloud Nine program helps to improve math skills through visualizing and verbalizing. It enables students to grasp math concepts they’ve struggled to understand through traditional teaching methods.
As students progress through the programs, parents see what our staff sees: Children reading texts with more ease and understanding, solving math problems of varying levels of complexity, and spelling words correctly.
Why an Individual Education Intervention Matters
Different deficiencies call for different teaching methods. That’s why it’s so important that we identify such disorders as dyslexia, often characterized by an inability to recognize and process symbols (i.e., letters) and words; auditory processing disorder, which prevents students from understanding what they hear, no matter how clearly they receive the sounds; and dyscalculia, which is an inability to process math concepts. Our testing sets each student on the right path toward improvement in areas we identify as needing attention.
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Get in touch with Weston Family Psychology and watch your child get in touch with reading and math. Then wait to hear a phrase you thought you might never hear from your child: “Hey, Mom and Dad, I figured this out — all by myself.”
