![]() We paid a fee to have our son evaluated by the center. I actually LOVED the Lindamood Bell center and would have placed my son there without hesitation. The environment was very friendly and the center director was knowledgeable. We looked at the possibility of enrolling our son in the program. ![]() You'll meet a full array of personalities and get to see major changes happen in these kids' reading abilities.We had our child evaluated by the Lindamood Bell Center near us. Working with kids was very fun and rewarding. ![]() The training fully prepares you for working with the students but it is very draining at points. It is paid training for about 9 hours a day with two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch. The hardest part about working as a clinician was the initial 2 week training period. This can feel a bit intimidating your first few weeks but by the month marker, I felt like I had time to spare while working with the kids. Each kid has a personalized schedule that you are supposed to follow while you work with them and you are also expected to keep notes of your session with the kid. There are summer hiring periods where they take seasonal employees but are happy to keep anyone who is interested in staying. Occasionally you will have to alert them to you not having your break properly scheduled, but they will immediately work to get your break set up. Management does there best to work with your schedule and adjust to your needs. It's up to you to make the lessons fun and interactive with the kids. Each hour you work with a different kid to perform specific tasks to help improve the child's reading, writing, communication, comprehension, or math skills. Working as a clinician isn't the most challenging job as long as you can stand repetitive work and are capable of multi-tasking. I began working here as a clinician on a friend's recommendation who is also still employed with the company. It's not always immediately apparent, but the more time you spend at this company, the more you see how dishonest they are, how stupid - more. So these parents are going into debt and not seeing progress, and Lindamood-Bell continues to try to suck them dry. Then, the vapid CD described above was supposed to sell them on more hours (which they always do). One family took out a loan (might have even been a second mortgage, I'm not 100% sure) for their son to come to Lindamood-Bell, only for him to make little progress, as evidenced by Lindamood-Bell's own testing procedure (which they even rig to show more gains by changing versions if the kid does worse). I have so much more to say to describe how much I feel Lindamood-Bell is stealing dreams away from parents who work so hard to have their children succeed. You can buy those books at Gander Publishing, which also lines the pockets of the owner of Lindamood-Bell. You're better off just buying the books online to learn the program, then opening a rival company. If you're a person with opinions and who wants to see this company succeed, I'm afraid they just don't want to hear your suggestions. This person is the head of an educational institution? She's also been transferred to a larger center since then, showing you that promotions come if you're dumber than a bag of rocks. ![]() Let me give you an example: The Center Director that was there when I left was amazed that plants could survive off light from a lamp. The #1 thing this company looks for in employees is that they will smile and nod, no matter what is asked of them. Lindamood-Bell really is changing kids' lives, those who are lucky enough to be enrolled, and the clinicians/my co-workers are usually a good mix of nerdy and r e a l. It's a very corporate atmosphere, and we're usually helping kids from well-to-do areas, though every once in a while there might be a black or POC kid from a low-income area whose family fortunately didn't have to pay. The hardest part of the job is 1) constantly being on the go, only 5 minutes in between students which you use to set up materials at the learning center or open a bunch of new tabs on the computer, while finishing a conduct log or notes on how the session went, to say the least, and 2) constant emotional energy, constantly interacting with other humans, even on days your mind and body could really just use a couple of hours of admin work to keep going throughout the day or throughout the week without burning out. In-person, it was possible (for me) to gain energy from the students, as well as some amazing staff members. ![]() The most enjoyable part of the job is the individualized teaching and interacting with students 1:1 as the humans they are, though during pandemic quarantine doing so over the computer is exhausting. ![]()
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