Lindamood-Bell Series Workshop - Visualising and Verbalizing

Course Objectives

1. Understand the sensory-cognitive factors of phonemic awareness, symbol imagery, and concept imagery and how they underlie and influence the development of language and literacy skills.

2. Understand the gestalt of the reading process as an integration of skills, the sensory-cognitive functions that underlie those skills, and how to develop and apply those sensory-cognitive functions to reading and comprehension. Understand the sequence and progression of skill development that leads to reading fluency, with comprehension.

3. Gain knowledge of symptoms of weak comprehension skills, including symptoms exhibited with or without poor decoding skills.

4. Understand that the program is delivered through explicit, systematic instruction that is cumulative and reinforced through multiple practice activities while students demonstrate proficiency before advancing to a more complex level.

5. Understand the role of concept imagery in the development of acquiring and retaining vocabulary, oral and written language comprehension, as well as oral and written expressive language.

6. Gain knowledge of the critical role of concept imagery in higher order thinking skills: main idea, conclusion, inference, prediction, and evaluation.

7. Understand the role of concept imagery in citing evidence from text.

8. Understand the role of concept imagery in comprehension monitoring strategies.

9. Understand the role of concept imagery in recall, sequencing, and understanding of oral and written language from a single word to processing multiple paragraphs of connected text, and ultimately applying concept imagery to higher order thinking and content instruction.

Course Fees

Early Bird $2100 (With additional $100 for SALTS members)

CPE Hours

This course is subjected to up to 8 CPE points subject to approval