Lindamood-Bell™ Learning Program

    

LBP at Wesleyan has been in existence since 1992 and is within the umbrella of Student Academic Support Services. This fee-based service is offered to all Wesleyan students who have reading, writing, cognitive processing, verbal expressive, and math difficulties. Many students who receive support and services from the Student Academic Support Services Program also enroll in LBP. Consistent application with Wesleyan's LBP Reading will improve skills required for accurate decoding, quick word recognition, and comprehension for the increased volume of information facing today's college student. Test scores and improved academic performance have validated a record of success with our students. The components of this program include: LiPS (Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing), V-V (Visualizing and Verbalizing for comprehension), math (V-V and symbol imagery for math comprehension) and Application (applying these skills to actual course work).

LiPS is a process-oriented approach to word reading using articulatory feedback to enable individuals to verify and conceptualize the identity, number, and order of phoneme segments within single and multi-syllable words. This auditory conceptual judgment can then be applied for independence and self-correction in reading and spelling.

V-V focuses on developing reading and language comprehension by stimulating the ability to create an imaged gestalt or "whole" from concepts in oral and written language and then using the imaged "whole" as the base from which to process high level comprehension and critical thinking skills. Some of these skills involve main idea, inference, conclusion, prediction, and evaluation.

LBP Math works with visualizing and verbalizing math concepts and with symbol imagery to help students who have language and working memory difficulties succeed with math.

Application is the portion of LBP where students learn to apply the above techniques to their actual college reading, writing, and note-taking.

Students enrolled in the LBP classes are charged according to the following schedule:

• Level 4 - $2,600 per semester includes 4 hours of full clinical instruction each week plus 1 to 2 hours of guided independent application.
• Level 3 - $1,950 per semester includes 3 hours of full clinical instruction each week plus 1 to 3 hours of guided independent application.
• Level 2 - $1,300 per semester includes 2 hours of weekly application clinical instruction each week plus 1 to 2 hours of guided independent application.
• Level 1 - $650 per semester includes 1 hour weekly of application clinical instruction each week plus 1 to 2 hours of guided independent application.

*The listed fee structure applies to the 2005-2006 academic year.