Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes reviews

The culture that corporate enforces promotes a constant over-the-top positivity that comes to feel creepy and false (e.g., one must respond with "my pleasure!" when thanked for anything). We were told during training that "this is an emotional job, in that you are required to be happy"--very weird. The people at the top seem to advocate this unnecessary focus on various minor aspects of presentation at the cost of addressing substantive issues of instruction. A lot is expected of clinicians--you must manage behavior, act as a diagnostician, and complete a significant (often unrealistic) number of instructional tasks in each hour. You have only 5 minutes between sessions to prepare for your next student (including putting away and setting up materials), and you may not have any time to learn about the diagnoses they have, behavioral issues, and so forth. You are expected to build a rapport with the student and make learning fun, yet also follow the instructional plan to a T and not waste a single moment in each 55-minute allotment. Both esteem and pay are low given the responsibilities and skill set required, and the pay has now been lowered even further with little warning (other reviews detail this situation).

The handling of the recent pay cut by corporate was abysmal. Apparently an email was sent the week before the cut went into effect—and the timing here was sneaky and underhanded as it was, but I personally never even received this email and instead found out through a friend who doesn’t even work at the same location I do. There was no communication between upper management and their clinicians, and even now a week later no one in upper management has breathed a word of it, as if they’re hoping if they don’t say anything the backlash will quietly go away on its own. Clinicians and consultants, the people who work rigorously day in and out for the sake of students they love, and earn a salary that didn’t appropriately compensate the amount of work we do to begin with, deserve better than to be thrown under the bus after the countless hours we have spent laboring to make the changes in our students’ lives that the company so loves to laud to the public. There are a myriad other ways to make up for this year’s low earnings and, as if they know what they’re doing is wrong, the handling of the cuts was backhanded and deceitful. Scheduling is also a mess, constantly changing and impossible to read for clinicians who have to quickly make changes and adjust throughout the day because of a poorly designed schedule layout, instead of keeping track of and prepping for our students, which is what we really need the time for (and what our actual jobs are?!). In the past four months or so the schedule layout has changed several times and without any warning, meaning employees have to constantly make allowances for extra time spent adjusting to different and poorly designed schedules instead of actually doing our jobs.