This facility, the first of its kind is created as an integrated pediatric outpatient facilitator is designed to treat the whole child. All children, with special emphasis on those with developmental disabilities and chronic medical problems, receive the most comprehensive and integrated treatment available. One of the providers for this new concept in pediatric care is Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes , whose research based programs have won international acclaim as being effective in the treatment of learning disabilities including dyslexia, hyperlexia, attention deficit disorder, and autism. Instruction is based on an individual's learning needs and embodies an interactive, balanced approach. Through Socratic questioning, clinicians teach students to integrate sensory information to help them become self-correcting and independent in all learning tasks.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to judge sounds within words.
Weakness in this area is a primary cause of decoding and spelling problems. By teaching individuals to become aware of the mouth actions which produce speech sounds, the students then have the means of verifying sounds within words and enables them to become self-correcting in reading, spelling, and speech. Concept imagery is the ability to create an imaged gestalt. Language comprehension difficulties are often due to a weakness in this sensory-cognitive function. When individuals become able to image gestalts which include color and movement, they can then improve their language comprehension, reasoning for critical thinking, and expressive language skills.