Orton-Gillingham

Orton-Gillingham is an instructional approach intended primarily for use with persons who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing of the sort associated with dyslexia. It is most properly understood and practiced as an approach, not a method, program, system or technique. In the hands of a well-trained and experienced instructor, it is a powerful tool of exceptional breadth, depth, and flexibility.

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is most often associated with a one-on-one teacher-student instructional model. Its use in small group instruction is not uncommon. A successful adaptation of the approach has demonstrated its value for class-room instruction. Reading, spelling and writing difficulties have been the dominant focus of the approach although it has been successfully adapted for use with students who exhibit difficulty with mathematics.

The Orton-Gillingham Approach always is focused upon the learning needs of the individual student. Students with dyslexia need to master the same basic knowledge about language and its relationship to our writing system as any who seek to become competent readers and writers. However, because of their dyslexia, they need more help than most people in sorting, recognizing, and organizing the raw materials of language for thinking and use. Language elements that non-dyslexic learners acquire easily must be taught directly and systematically.

PACE Processing and Cognitive Enhancement

PACE (Processing and Cognitive Enhancement) targets the brain’s overall processing abilities. The purpose of the intense PACE, one to one, program is to establish stronger neurological pathway connections, produce significant changes quickly, and to ensure measurable cognitive changes. Through fast-paced, fun activities, cognitive skills are developed in areas of auditory and visual processing, working memory, processing speed, attention, logic and reasoning, and phonemic awareness.

MTC Master the Code

Master the Code is a revolutionary “Sound to Code” reading and spelling program modeled after the process by which spoken language is first learned. The program teaches reading and spelling concurrently through techniques that train students to accurately recognize letters and letter combinations, and the corresponding sounds of speech. MTC works in conjunction with PACE to enhance attention, memory, auditory analysis, sound blending and segmenting, and working memory.

The Listening Program

The recordings are created using live musicians, and the compositions are arranged to take advantage of different frequencies, tempo, and other factors to stimulate different parts of the brain and different functions in the auditory processing system. This enables the brain to better receive process, store and utilize the information presented to it through the varied sounds we encounter every day.

LiPS® Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®

The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) program provides specific instruction for students with weak phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness focuses on smaller units of sound. Gaining awareness that words are made of a sequence of individual sounds develops strong decoding and encoding skills. Research indicates that strong phonological and phonemic awareness is the foundation for reading and spelling success.

The BrainTrain Center of Miami is not Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell®, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell® - an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills - in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by the BrainTrain Center of Miami.  The facilitators of the BrainTrain Center of Miami are trained in using LiPS®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, Talkies®, Seeing Stars®, and On Cloud Nine® to work with our students

On Cloud Nine® Math Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®

In the On Cloud Nine® math program, as individuals become familiar with the concrete manipulatives, they are questioned and directed to consciously transfer the experienced to the imaged. They image the concrete and attach language to their imagery. The integration of imagery and language is then applied to computation. They develop the sensory-cognitive processing to understand and use the logic in mental and written computation.

The BrainTrain Center of Miami is not Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell®, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell® - an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills - in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by the BrainTrain Center of Miami.  The facilitators of the BrainTrain Center of Miami are trained in using LiPS®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, Talkies®, Seeing Stars®, and On Cloud Nine® to work with our students

Visualizing and Verbalizing® Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes®

Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® (V/V®) successfully stimulates concept imagery. Individuals become able to image gestalts which include color, and even movement. This improves their language comprehension, reasoning for critical thinking, and expressive language skills. V/V will aide students improve reading comprehension, language expression, and written language skills.

The BrainTrain Center of Miami is not Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® nor is it affiliated with, certified, endorsed, licensed, monitored or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell®, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood or Pat Lindamood. Lindamood-Bell® - an international organization creating and implementing unique instructional methods and programs for quality intervention to advance language and literacy skills - in no way endorses or monitors the services provided by the BrainTrain Center of Miami.  The facilitators of the BrainTrain Center of Miami are trained in using LiPS®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, Talkies®, Seeing Stars®, and On Cloud Nine® to work with our students.

Interactive Metronome

Interactive Metronome is a neuro-motor therapy program. The IM computer program provides a structured, goal-oriented process that challenges the patient to synchronize a range of hand and foot exercises. Over the course of the program students learn to focus for longer periods of time, they are able to increase physical endurance, filter distractions, and improve ability to monitor mental and physical actions.

Fast ForWord

Fast ForWord is a computer program that develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing-the cognitive skills essential for learning and reading success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to read or to become a better reader.

Dyslexia Correction Methods

Our facilitators are trained in using the Davis Dyslexia Correction Method and the Audiblox Method to work with our students.  These programs provide the students with the ability to recognize and correct perceptual distortions at will. The programs correct the learning disabilities using the natural strengths and talents of the individual’s personal thinking and learning style.  Our students use clay models and colored blocks.

BrainBuilder®

BrainBuilder® is a computer program that will improve the students’ memory, increase processing skills and help with focus and attention in just minutes a day! With BrainBuilder®, students experience remarkable results in memory and attention, sharpened focus and clearer thinking, improved visual and auditory processing, increased brain speed, and stronger problem-solving skills. Students also become efficient in processing information relating to all aspects and demands of life.