Teachers, reading specialists, tutors, and speech and language pathologists will have the opportunity to be trained in the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS™) program and to learn techniques of Precision Teaching on the following days:

Friday, April 9,2010 at 4:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8:30am-4:30pm
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 4:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 8:30am-4:30pm
Saturday, May 8 & 15, 2010 at 8:30am-4:30pm

The cost of the six-day training is $700.00. A copy of the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (#8601) will be provided for an additional cost of $112.00. + $11.20 shipping and handling (available from Proed (1-800-897-3202)). The manual is needed for the course. Lunch and refreshments are included in the cost of the program.

NHPIN will sponsor the training. Jean Tucker, M.Ed., CCC-SLP will teach the course. It will be held at the Jean C. Tucker Communication & Education Skills at 92 Portsmouth Avenue, Suite 4, Exeter, New Hampshire.

The course uses published materials and techniques developed by Patricia and Charles Lindamood.*; it presents procedures for assessing and developing awareness of sounds in words as a basis for decoding and spelling. Beginning in 2008, the course will comprise six days so that teachers can also learn the basic techniques of Precision Teaching. The LiPS training:

• examines the sensory and cognitive processes basic to reading and writing;
• explores the relationship of phonological awareness to language comprehension;
• provides study and supervised practice in techniques for developing phonological awareness;
• provides study and supervised practice in application to decoding, spelling, and sight vocabulary;
• teachs methods for developing self-generating and self-correcting behavior in oral and written language.

In addition to being prepared to use the LiPS™ program to develop the ability of young children to learn and read and to remediate reading difficulties of older children and adults, participants:

• develop and increase an understanding of how articulatory-motor feedback augments and supports phonological awareness;
• increase their knowledge of the phonological and syllabic structure of the English language.

When taught during the LiPS training program, Precision Teaching provides a 'fluency' component not included in the LiPS program. Participants learn how to conduct practice of basic skills that have been learned so that students perform the skills at a rate which ensures that they are retained and are available when the basic skill is necessary part of a more complex skill which being learned.

*Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in no way guarantees the quality of the materials that may be supplies by NHPIN which is not affiliated with, certified, licensed, monitored, or sponsored by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Nanci Bell, Phyllis Lindamood, or Pat Lindamood

By mail: complete registration and return with payment by March 26, 2010. If you have questions, please contact Julia Higgins by email julia.higgins@comcast.net.