{"id":7,"date":"2021-02-25T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-02-23T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T22:53:49","slug":"founders-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/about-us\/founders-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n\t<div id=\"breadcrumbs-block_fe26c4d6252644fc62c9109f78f3b461\" class=\"breadcrumb_main block-breadcrumbs white-bradcrumb\">\r\n\t \t<div class=\"container\">\r\n\t \t\t<div id=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>   \r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n\t#quote-block-block_d8c8cdf89ad26607c5df15e77196b2cb {\r\n\t\t\/* Add styles that use ACF values here *\/\r\n\t}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<div id=\"quote-block-block_d8c8cdf89ad26607c5df15e77196b2cb\" class=\"story-banner red-bg block-quote-block alignfull\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"d-flex flex-wrap justify-content-between\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"story-left-block\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"story-banner-title\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<label>Founder\u2019s Story<\/label>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1>A commitment to bring clarity to chaos<\/h1>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"story-banner-caps\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cWhat has gotten me out of bed with a sense of purpose all these years is an undying commitment to make sense of the muddle. To unpack it, understand it, impose some kind of order in it and, well, make it less muddled.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"founder-name\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<label>Bonnie Singer, Ph.D.<\/label>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Founder<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"story-banner-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"founder-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/about-us.png);\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:84px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70.66%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">Wait\u2026 I can\u2019t communicate with you??!!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I was drawn to what I do by a kid named Mark. I met him in the traveling theatre group I was part of in high school. Mark was profoundly deaf. The only person he could communicate with was his sister, and it bugged me to no end that I couldn\u2019t talk to him. In our spare moments in rehearsals and car trips to and from performances, I got him to teach me sign language, and I made a new friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:6px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-ccp-secondary-light-color has-text-color\">My first big aha moment: discovering speech-language pathology.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I had my heart set on studying vocal performance at Emerson college, but when I stumbled across their Communication Disorders program, my cells realigned in a flash. Some voice from within me whispered, \u201cSwitch your major.\u201d I did before even landing on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:7px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">I made that decision 39 years ago. In hindsight, it was one of the best blind decisions I have ever made.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I started my career focused on preschool speech and language disorders, then became fascinated by their later difficulties learning to read. Ultimately, students who struggle with writing won my heart, and that\u2019s where I focused my research. Many of those students also had challenges with attention, spatial processing, and memory \u2014 all the skills needed to \u201cdo school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 39 incredible years, I\u2019ve remained endlessly fascinated by the ins and outs of language and their relationships with thinking and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:7px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">Internal disorganization: It mucks up learning.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a colleague asked me what students struggle with the most. Without<br>blinking, I responded, \u201cThey\u2019re massively disorganized.\u201d I didn\u2019t mean messy. I meant internally disorganized \u2014 their language and thinking and ways of approaching hard tasks get all jumbled up. One of my students likened it to the mangled-up ball of Christmas tree lights that are impossible to untangle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result? They don\u2019t make sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They don\u2019t make sense of what they read, or what others say to them. They don\u2019t make sense when they explain something or write. Because their actions are guided by inner dialogue, and their inner dialogue is inherently disorganized, they often do things in ways that don\u2019t make sense, too. Though they may be quite bright, they\u2019re all over the place, especially in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, they\u2019re in a muddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:7px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">I am driven to make sense of the muddle.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized recently that what has gotten me out of bed with a sense of purpose all these years is an undying commitment to make sense of the muddle. To unpack it, understand it, impose some kind of order in it and, well, make it less muddled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take my recent conversation with Ricky, for example, a second grader I was talking to not too long ago. He was sharing what he did at camp:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2026um\u2026went\u2026um\u2026I forget. We did baseball camp. It was fun. We did outfield infield catching\u2026uh\u2026 and\u2026we\u2026um\u2026we\u2026and that\u2019s it!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What he did at camp. Got it\u2026not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With students like Ricky, my brain kicks into gear, firing questions and searching for answers. What the heck is going on with his language? Or is it his thinking? One is clearly affecting the other, but which got muddled up first? And how? And why? And for the love of [insert name of higher power here],&nbsp;<strong>what do I do to help him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students like Ricky inspired me to create EmPOWER and Brain Frames and everything else I\u2019ve come up with over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t stop there, though, because the stakes for kids who struggle are too high. Language paves the way for establishing relationships, belonging in community, gaining knowledge and understanding, and self-knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:7px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">I get out of bed to make sense of the muddle students are in, but what keeps me going for the rest of the day is helping their teachers make sense of it too.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Because students have important things to say now, and if they don\u2019t learn how to express them, they won\u2019t grow up able to make a unique contribution to the world. 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