We’ve reached the application stage! The goal when I began the Visualizing and Verbalizing program with Lindamood-Bell was to get to the point where I could read novels, neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind. Novels because my entire life prior to my brain injury I’d read fiction, novels since I was a child. I carried a…
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Leaping Levels in Visualizing and Verbalizing with Lindamood-Bell
The Director of the Double Bay Lindamood-Bell Centre in Australia popped in to test my reading level, first with me reading a Whole Paragraph on something science-y and then me reading a Whole Page on Fermat’s Last Theorem. Although I had a bit of trouble with words at one point turning into gibberish, somehow when…
Starting Week Six Visualizing and Verbalizing Paragraphs with a Laugh
Visualizing and Verbalizing is tough work. By the end of the week, I pay bills, walk, then collapse in front of Netflix. And so I asked for a bit of an easier time during week four five as I had been invited to attend an all day co-design event hosted by OCAD’s Inclusive Design Research Centre…
Visualizing and Verbalizing Four Paragraphs with Lindamood-Bell
Yesterday, at the start of week . . . uh, what week are we on . . . oh right, five, I read a four-paragraph story during my reading comprehension retraining with Lindamood-Bell Australia, but we didn’t finish the full Visualizing and Verbalizing process. Today we did. After the clinician read a grade level seven…
Paragraphs in Lockstep, Restoring Reading Comprehension After Brain Injury with Lindamood-Bell
Working the neurons, changing pathways in the brain, fills every cell in my body with white noise. Fatigue while learning how to comprehend written text is spreading into the rest of my life. “Where do you want to meet next time?” “Uh . . .” “What part of the city do you want to do…
Creating Concept Imagery Paragraph by Paragraph with Lindamood-Bell
At the end of my third week with Lindamood-Bell Australia, the Associate Director took over the last half of the second hour to test run paragraph by paragraph reading. She gave me a story at grade level 5, and I did well enough that she decided that it was time to drop Multiple Sentence task,…
Twenty-Six Hours in To Visualizing and Verbalizing at Lindamood-Bell
I thought Visualizing and Verbalizing was tough before. Yesterday, my fatigue grew and grew during the first hour that answering two more questions in the last minute was impossible. I’d read a third Whole Paragraph — only ever done two max before — done a word summary on it, been guided to develop more images…
Going Up a Level in Visualizing and Verbalizing with Lindamood-Bell
The Associate Director of the Lindamood-Bell Double Bay, Australia centre popped in for my first hour to read a few whole paragraphs with me. We began with a Multiple Sentence with me imaging pictures for each set of sentences. Nice pictures was the verdict. We moved on to reading a Whole Paragraph from the level…
Week Three Rehabilitating Reading Comprehension after Brain Injury
By the time week two came to an end, my brain was heading straight for a snooze on the couch . . . or at least there would be no blogging. Even now, it’s tugging at me to go nap. Needless to say week two’s progress report is a bit fuzzy in my memory. But…