can you talk to me about LiPS?

[momsuz123]

Do you use it? Do you like it? Our dd may have phonetic awareness issues. We meet with a panel of specialists who evaluated her to hear the results. I am getting ready for them to blow us off and looking into the right curriculum choices. AAS has helped her a lot, but it is like she needs so much more phonetics to really get it.

Thanks.

[RamonaQ]

We had HUGE success with a program that would be, as I would describe, a derivative of LIPS. The program we used applies articulatory linguistics, which I really feel this is a useful approach because it helps bypass the phonological defect apparent in many dyslexics (see Sally Shaywitz).

[merry gardens]

I used it and I continue to use pieces of LiPS and things that I learned from it. LiPS turned around my son's reading. He had made very little progress reading before LiPS. He tested with poor phonemic awareness the previous year with an slp. We tried a different program that the slp recommended, in addition we worked on studying phonograms for a year--with very little improvement in his reading. The next year, he failed a screening for Barton Reading and Spelling, so we did a portion of LiPs, followed by Barton. He de-codes at grade level now and his phonemic awareness skills test strong.

 

(Unfortunately, ds still has dyslexia. I thought it would go away once we remediated his phonemic awareness and he started reading, but his dyslexia shows up in other ways now.)

[siloam]

Do you use it? Do you like it? Our dd may have phonetic awareness issues. We meet with a panel of specialists who evaluated her to hear the results. I am getting ready for them to blow us off and looking into the right curriculum choices. AAS has helped her a lot, but it is like she needs so much more phonetics to really get it.

Thanks.

 

I adore LiPS. It works on how the mouth feels and looks as well has what the sounds are, so it is using three senses at once. It isn't a cure all, As Merry said, they are still dyslexic.

 

With my 3rd dd she couldn't hear blends at all. She would write bend as bid and then read bid and burst into tears because she didn't know how to find the right letters. After doing LiPS she would write bend as bed, read it then start saying the word over till she would find the blend. She still doesn't have automatic recall, so most of the time she writes it wrong first and self corrects, but being able to self correct is huge.

 

I love AAS, but I have to modify it a lot. Our pace is much slower with a ton of review. My 3rd dd (5th grade) is still in level 2. DS (3rd grade) is in level 1. Just keep swimming.....

 

Heather

[Lecka]

I looked at LIPS but my son is able to qualify for one-on-one speech therapy paid for by our insurance. What they do with him there is a lot like LIPS. It is really helping my son.

 

It has helped him have more automatic recall of his letter sounds (looking at a letter, he knows it more quickly than he used to). It has helped him tell apart similar-sounding words. It is great for telling the difference between words like sell and shell, or knowing what consonant is at the end of a word.

 

He was able to make progress in AAS concurrently, though. I didn't know about it at the time, but I am going to do Abecederian Level B with him soon. The error correction videos are also helpful for blends. My son also had problems with blends. For him to hear a blend -- it is like, just teach him the word, don't sit and wait for him to hear it. Do the letter tiles for it, or turtle talk while running your finger under the letters. We did that for a while and it helped. We still go back to it -- it is still hard for him to segment but getting better. I have found that no other way of teaching him will work... nothing that is too oral will work at all.

 

I alos recommend Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz. I am not sure at all if my son has dyslexia (and am doubting it at present) but he fits the learning style of that book. I think he might be in the 30% who will do well taught that way, without being in the 5% of the 30% who will have the most struggles.

Edited December 15, 2011 by Lecka