Visualizing and Verbalizing

Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) is a learning program that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, and higher order thinking skills by developing the ability to create mental imagery for the language they read and hear, and to create an imaged gestalt – imagery for the big picture, or whole. This mental imagery for language is called concept imagery, and it is essential to comprehension skills.

Individuals with weak concept imagery may have difficulty comprehending what they read, even if their reading skills are otherwise unimpaired. These individuals may have trouble following directions, or expressing their own ideas in an organized manner. They may be accused of being lazy, or of not trying hard enough, because words directed at them seem to go in one ear and out the other. V/V® instruction can help these individuals connect language to mental imagery and enable them to make a significant, measurable improvement in language comprehension.

Visualizing and Verbalizing was authored by Nanci Bell, M.A., Director and CEO of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, and the program has been used in Lindamood-Bell® Learning Centers and School Services partnerships since 1986.