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IPP in the Panoply of Learning

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There are three broad stages in human learning.

Humans, unlike almost all other creatures, are slow in developing the capacity to learn appropriate to their environs.  Most creatures come into life pre-wired with almost all they need to survive and thrive — humans have a greater need, and a greater capacity to learn, but they are not completely pre-wired — they need to learn how to learn.

The first stage is so elementary that it was not even identified until the last half-century.  It is called “patterning”. It occurs when babies first start to explore their environment by crawling and otherwise controlling their bodies in exploring the outside world.    This “motor learning” seems so natural, that it is commonly not considered “learning”, but for whatever reason, some children miss developing important aspects of this development, so they Continue reading “IPP in the Panoply of Learning” →

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Energia SOI Wins Education Award in India

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We are so excited to announce that Energia SOI, located in India, has won the award for Best Educational Program Start-Up for Kids 2018.

We are so proud of Ambereen and Sadaf, the founders of Energia SOI. They have worked so hard for this achievement!

Ambereen recently wrote to us:

“Hope you all doing fine. I am very excited to share with you Energia SOI has been nominated for India education award 2018. I still remember in May 2014, I wrote a mail to Diane asking of how I can become part of SOI. Its been almost 4 years since that day and here we are receiving an award because of SOI. I wanted to thank you all for giving us an opportunity and believing in us. I feel my journey with SOI has just started and I have a long long way to go. A dream of making SOI part of every household.” Continue reading “Energia SOI Wins Education Award in India” →

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SOI Summer Workshops 2018

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It’s time to start planning for this summer’s workshops! We can’t wait to see you!

This year we have three different workshops available: Intermediate/Advanced, Advanced/Associate, and SOI-IPP. Find details for each below!

INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WORKSHOP

Join us for three days to complete your Intermediate and Advanced training requirements at once. The first day will be your Intermediate level training, where you will improve your SOI interpretation skills and gain access to our online testing option with the ALA and PLA tests.

The next two days, you will Continue reading “SOI Summer Workshops 2018” →

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SOI System’s Approach to Learning Problems

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SOI Systems is a company with a 50 year history of addressing student learning problems. Our focus has been primarily on making sure that the student’s capacities for learning are matching the expectations of the teaching situation – whether that is in a school, a university, or less formal circumstances like home schooling.

When the student’s capacities for learning do not match the expectations of the learning situation, we take a clinical approach to the situation – isolate and identify the learning problem; make a preliminary diagnosis, test to find the probable cause; prescribe an intervention; and monitor to see if the intervention is effective.

This is not a one-size-fits-all approach – it is individualized for each student-client. On the other hand, as with any clinical practice, there are broad guidelines based on years of experience. These guidelines define three general areas.

INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES AND CONCEPTS

All learning situations are predicated on a set of expectations about the student’s cognitive abilities – acquisition of new data or concepts (cognition), recall of data acquired (memory), information Continue reading “SOI System’s Approach to Learning Problems” →

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Using SOI in Business & Industry

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MATCH CAREERS TO EMPLOYEES’ PROFILES OF ABILITIES. IDENTIFY UNTAPPED POTENTIAL. IDENTIFY EMPLOYEES AT RISK FOR EFFICIENCY.

SOI TESTING POSSIBILITIES

  • gifted abilities can suggest career possibilities and promotion
  • long standing learning disabilities are identified and remediation procedures are suggested
  • discover how character and personality interact with individual intellectual abilities

Use SOI for testing, identification, and training. Use all three for the most complete program, or use only the steps you need.

THE SOI DIFFERENCE

SOI testing is particularly fair to the linguistically or economically disadvantaged. Since the SOI test is wide spectrum (in particular, it includes Figural intelligence), it is possible for the disadvantaged to show their strengths. This allows you to make better placements.

SOI testing is fair in another way, as well. One of the greatest problems for industry is Continue reading “Using SOI in Business & Industry” →

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Reading with LOCAN

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WHAT IS LOCAN?

LOCAN is a new method for teaching reading.

Most children who have not learned to read by the third grade are probably figurally-dominant. They are labeled “learning disabled” or “dyslexic” because they cannot read. Concrete learners will also probably struggle to progress in reading with any of the existing methods. Or, if they do learn to “read,” it will probably be reading without comprehension. All children who are preliterate or non literate can benefit from LOCAN!

LOCAN is a hieroglyphic language, making it direct and concrete. Every word in the language has its own glyph. Picture-characters (or glyphs) stand for words. One picture-character equals one word. The meaning is directly represented in the symbol. Children first learn to read logos, trademarks, stop signs, etc. It is the natural way to learn to read. LOCAN extends this natural experience into the English language.

It is easy to acquire vocabulary, and is much easier than Continue reading “Reading with LOCAN” →

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Getting to the Root of Learning Difficulties

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IPP gets to the root of learning difficulties by addressing the issues that often cause poor academic performance.

The IPP program is successful because it addresses the cause(s) of the learning difficulty. It works to improve attention span, memory, comparison & contrast thinking, eye-hand coordination, systems reasoning, and other skills essential to the learning process. This helps students perform better in school and in life.

IPP HISTORY

Years of identifying and training cognitive dysfunctions have revealed the importance of underlying physiological processes, especially focusing skills and sensory integration functions.

SOI training will help even in the face of focusing skill and/or sensory integration dysfunctions, but, obviously, the prognosis would not be as good as if there were treatment for those functions that underlie cognitive processes. To address this need, SOI developed the IPP program to Continue reading “Getting to the Root of Learning Difficulties” →