Report on Lindamood Phoenemic Sequencing

[cnoe]

In case you had not heard about this report being released on Dec. 16. I found this on the What Works Clearinghouse at:
ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

The WWC's report on "Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing (LiPS)", formerly called the "Auditory Discrimination in Depth [ADD]" program, has been updated to include reviews of 12 studies that have been released since 2005.

There is a list of other materials that have been released in Dec.

[healthy11]

To summarize: the version of the program tested involved computer-supported activities. It seems like the studies showed positive effects on alphabetics, without much discernable improvement in comprehension. No studies that meet WWC standards with or without reservations addressed fluency or general reading achievement.

[SharonF]

The What Works Clearinghouse not only endorses LiPS, but also Reading Recovery. Most of what I've read about Reading Recovery is less than supportive. Here's what Peter Wright says:

Question: What programs do you consider ineffective for teaching kids to read?

Answer: Reading Recovery. The [National Institute for Child Health & Human Development] has a clear position that was not appropriate.

Question: What programs do you believe work?

Answer: Orton-Gillingham. That's the one that has been working for many years. School districts run away from it. It requires intense training. There are other programs, Wilson [Reading System] and Lindamood-Bell. They require the staff be well-trained, and I'm not aware of any schools of education that really train teachers in these methods.

www.wrightslaw.com/news/06/wright.teaching.disabled.htm

I think it was charlotted's post about RTI that mentioned the fear that EVERY reading program will somehow claim that it has scientific validation. Even if it doesn't.

[mamak]

The LMB process is a combination of programs which are designed around each child's needs. So when only looking at the LIPS program it fails to mention the other ones used in combination to get the incredible results seen with so many kids. Kids with little to no phonemic awareness usually get LIPS and or a combination of it with Seeing Stars and they throw in the V&V for comprehension if appropriate.

B clearly had LIPS mixed in with Seeing stars and it made an incredible difference in his phonemic awareness. He also stopped mispronouncing words and his leftover baby talk disappeared. In fact he was somewhat annoying when he started to correct my mispronouncing of words. Fluency was increased but still one thing LMB does not provide is a fluency builder program after the other areas are in place. They always recommend continued and guilded oral reading to improve that area.