How is SOI used?
General Education
SOI focuses on the relationship of intellectual abilities to academic and practical learning.
Intellectual abilities + instruction = success in learning.
Lack of intellectual abilities + instruction = failure to learn.Many learning failures are due to lack of intellectual abilities on the students' part. SOI assesses, and, when necessary, provides the training for developing intellectual abilities.
Reading
SOI identifies those intellectual abilities and perceptual skills necessary for learning to read. Without these abilities and skills, the best reading instruction often fails. SOI develops these abilities and skills.Remedial Education
Most students who fail do so because they lack specific intellectual abilities and/or perceptual skills presumed to be intact by the instruction. SOI determines not only which are missing but offers lessons to develop them. This is a cure for learning failure, not a lifetime of tutoring or "teaching around" learning deficits.Gifted Education
Most gifted students enter school with well developed abilities for academic learning, but often do not have equally well developed abilities for application of learned material: judgment and creativity. SOI provides the necessary assessment and training materials.Training/Retraining
Training programs work for some clients, but not for others. SOI can often explain this difference and can transform unsuccessful clients into successful ones.Career Counseling
SOI matches a student's or client's intellectual profile to the cognitive requirements for a wide variety of careers. If the client's intellectual profile does not meet the requirements for a specific career, SOI can provide training to improve those abilities that are weak and open new career opportunities.Math
Math instruction often fails because students do not have the requisite cognitive abilities, or necessary concepts for understanding. Therefore, they must rely completely on rules and memorization. SOI can provide the assessment and training to develop these abilities and, along with MathPrep, give instruction to learn the general principles of mathematics.
