The ® Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking ® (Visualizing and Verbalizing® or V/V®) program, one of the Lindamood-Bell learning processes, builds upon the skills learned in the LiPS® program.

Visualizing and Verbalizing® strengthens a student's reading comprehension, oral language expression and language comprehension.  Language comprehension skills underlie the reading process.  Language comprehension is the ability to connect to and interpret both oral and written language.  It is the ability to recall facts, get the main idea, make an inference, draw a conclusion, predict/extend and evaluate.  The student begins by verbalizing descriptions of pictures and then progresses to imaging words, single sentences, multiple sentences, whole paragraphs and finally to entire sections of text.

Visualizing and Verbalizing® directly teaches students how to better understand and remember language by using mental pictures.  Many students who experience difficulty with reading or language comprehension are not forming mental images from the words they read and hear.  This is referred to as weak concept imagery.  Visualizing and Verbalizing® enables a student to read material and comprehend it more than just recall it.  The student can generalize to the main idea, infer, conclude, predict, and evaluate from imaged gestalts.  Visualizing and Verbalizing® promotes oral language comprehension, oral language expression, written language expression and critical thinking.

Key Benefits

• Strengthens concept imagery skills, promoting effective oral and written comprehension and expression, as well as critical thinking.
• Children learn to better comprehend and express themselves through language, not just read it.
• Forming mental images of words heard or read can improve memory, inference and evaluation skills.