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Ann Street School is in the news! Gemstone Foundation Update.
Read what TV news channel KNBC had to say about Gemstone's visual skills training program and its positive effect on reading in an elementary school in Los Angeles, and see a clip of the children.
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July 9, 2009 |
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Gemstone Foundation Updates
The Gemstone Foundation has had great progress in elementary schools, with examples from California and Wisconsin.
In California, every child in one class had received visual skills training. They watched as the children stepped right up to the computer, logged in, and began the Dynamic Visual Skills program, with very few problems. "The children's enthusiasm was truly remarkable. I was amazed to learn we were observing the student's first experience with the training program."
In Wisconsin they found that students who subsequently do the 30-session Gemstone program improve visual skills and reading. They reported exciting results from students that participated.
The Gemstone Foundation wants to know more about the relationships between visual skills and reading. Visit their blog or website at the below address.
Gemstone Foundation Blog
Gemstone Foundation Website
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The Gemstone Foundation
Former VVRC investigator Maureen Powers has been involved in a vision-related nonprofit enterprise called The Gemstone Foundation. The mission of the organization is to help people attain visual efficiency -- the ability to move the two eyes together rapidly and accurately while playing sports, reading, using the computer, or performing any visual task.
The Gemstone Foundation has two main goals: To support schools with students whose academic performance may be hindered by poor visual skills, and to contribute to the research base that explores the relationship between visual skills and performance in school, sports, and career.
Gemstone’s mission is not only to help children in school learn to use their eyes in the most efficient manner, but to help anyone who faces challenges that demand active, dynamic visual system response: college students whose eyes feel fatigued at the end of the day, pilots who have to constantly scan the skies, ball players whose livelihoods depend on seeing the ball, computer users, lawyers, anyone who spends long hours in visually demanding work falls under our mission.
Please visit The Gemstone Foundation's newly remodeled website for more information on the many projects they are involved in. There is also a newsletter you can subscribe to for further information about this wonderful organization.
www.gemstonefoundation.org
December 9, 2008 |
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