About the company
Visual Learning For Life gives vision to every child's future by stimulating their visual perceptual skills. These skills involve the brain's ability to correctly and efficiently make sense of what is seen, and are essential in establishing a strong foundation for learning.
The company was established in 2005 and has been growing ever since. We provide parents, teachers and professionals with a unique and easily accessible tool, which helps to empower children who struggle with reading, spelling, handwriting, maths and comprehension due to visual perceptual problems.
We have endeavoured to provide a professional quality resource. This resource was endorsed by Becta, a UK government agency leading the national drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning, in June 2006 as part of the Curriculum Online initiative.
Our website offers an extensive database of over 1000 worksheets, with more being added every month.
About the Creator/Developer/Director
Melanie Lambert, a qualified Occupational Therapist, is the brainchild and creator of Visual Learning For Life and its extensive Worksheet Database that has been specially designed to encourage the development of visual perceptual skills.
Having grown up in South Africa, Melanie began her career managing her own paediatric private practice in White River where she worked with children with learning disabilities and development delays. Her practice formed the base for a large geographical area with a limited therapy infrastructure. Children had to travel from far and wide and were unable to attend regular sessions to address their particular learning needs. Melanie saw an opportunity to address this growing need and solve this problem by developing a Visual Skills Builder CD consisting of 500 worksheets in January 2005. The idea was marketed to colleagues and professionals and received an overwhelming positive response.
Melanie moved to the London to continue working in a paediatric private practice in April 2005 and began test marketing the product in the UK. Due to positive feedback and helpful results, a second Visual Skills Builder CD was released in October 2007 and the Visual Learning for Life website - formally www.skillsforlearning.net - was launched in December 2007. Due to ongoing success and further international interest, the website has been re-launched now in 2009 and has been designed to give users a more hands on approach, making the worksheets more accessible and user friendly.
The Worksheet Database continues to grow and Melanie is successfully developing and maximising the contents of the site to give users a complete toolkit in the pursuit of improving and enhancing children's visual perception.
About the Worksheet Database
Visual Learning For Life's Worksheet Database is a unique tool that has been designed to stimulate the development of visual perceptual skills and encourage children to assimilate these skills within their schoolwork. This empowering tool acts as a gateway to unlock common learning disabilities and is specially designed to help the integration process from one's eyes to one's brain to action.
The comprehensive Database contains over 1000 worksheets, with more being added every month, and can be used by parents, teachers and professionals alike to help children overcome visual perceptual difficulties. The worksheets have been devised to support children from ages 4 to 18.
The worksheets are broken up into ten Visual Perceptual Areas or sub skills. Problems in any of these ten areas can be identified by a professional trained in administering standardised visual perceptual tests. Alternatively if you are a parent or teacher, you can use our Online Checklist as a guide to help pin point the visual perceptual areas that require attention. They are Form Constancy, Figure Ground, Position in Space, Spatial Relationships, Visual Discrimination, Visual Closure, Visual Analysis and Synthesis, Visual Memory, Visual Sequential Memory, Visual Motor Integration.
Each section has been graded into three levels. Level 1 being the easiest with level 2 and 3 increasing in difficulty respectively. It is recommended to start on level 1 as this will provide a solid base of understanding and will help the child get to grips with the exercises quickly and easily. The Worksheet Database allows you to tailor make individual programmes to suit the needs of every child giving them the means to tackle the visual perceptual areas that they are specifically weak in. This will in turn sharpen their mental skills and narrow the gap between their ability and performance.
Parents, teachers and professionals can browse the Worksheet Database free of charge or setup a Subscription to gain complete access to the entire range of worksheets. The Subscription allows you to personalise your account, giving you the power to target your child's, pupil's or patient's individual needs.
