When words "go in one ear and out the other" or a person has to read something more than once to understand it. Other symptoms doesn't follow directions well gets lost easily can't get the main idea misses out on humor communicates poorly

Written language exists for one reason - to communicate ideas in a non-spoken way. Therefore, it serves little purpose to be able to read (decode words) if you can't comprehend what the text is saying. Have you ever thought about what it takes to comprehend something that you've read? What exactly goes on in your head?

The problem lies in the fact that the brain is not easily converting words into pictures and vice versa. We can change that by helping a student learn how to turn spoken and written language into images and how to take his own images and turn them into language that will stimulate images in others. The end results are improved communication and comprehension skills!

It was assumed for a long time that everyone could make pictures in their heads to match incoming language whether oral or written. Nanci Bell, now the director of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, discovered that this wasn't the case. While working with students that had reading problems, Nanci discovered that they had widely varied visualizing capacities. Some had none. Some had a little. Still others had the capacity to play feature length motion pictures with sounds and smells! The latter group obviously enjoyed the reading experience much more than their peers. But in addition to deriving more pleasure from reading, they were better equipped to get a main idea, infer, and predict, and draw conclusions about what they had read. In 1986, Nanci Bell published the manual for using the Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V™) program for Language Comprehension and Thinking, not to teach comprehension specifically, but to assist students to develop their Concept Imagery — the pictures — help students comprehend. Using the Nancibell® V/V™ manual at ETC, we see continuing results for our students in reading comprehension.