1.0 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.

2.0 General Education

In every learning situation assumptions are made about the learner's cognitive abilities (see the SOI Model for Learning). When the student meets these assumptions, learning is relatively easy. But when the learner does not meet these assumptions, learning can be difficult or even impossible. In order to best equip a student for learning we need to insure that he or she has developed the cognitive abilities assumed by the learning situation.

These cognitive abilities are very specific and very specifically related to different learning tasks. Thus, the cognitive abilities necessary for learning to read are not the same as the cognitive abilities necessary for learning mathematics. The SOI approach, then, is to prepare students for learning tasks by insuring that they have developed the necessary cognitive abilities.

3.0 SOI Training Modules

SOI is a complete system– assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the same system. The SOI tests measure learning abilities. These assessments are then related to learning requirements. The result of this comparison is a diagnosis of the students' strengths and weaknesses in learning. Most importantly, the weaknesses can be developed and strengthened with SOI Training Modules/Personalized Workbooks which are based on the Structure of Intellect theory.

General intelligence tests –those that provide different measures of IQ– offer very little that is helpful diagnostically. "Under achieving" and "over achieving" may be descriptive evaluations, but they do not help diagnose learning problems.

Very skilled clinicians, who use their powers of observation during the administration of a general intelligence test, can provide some diagnostic insight into learning problems, but unless those insights are translated into systematic treatment, the problems will persist.

3.1 SOI Training Modules
SOI offers more than one hundred modules for training intelligence. Each module is focused on one learning ability. Modules in combination can be used to train general learning abilities.

The SOI Training Modules complete the system: SOI tests to obtain a learning profile, SOI analyses to diagnose learning problems and SOI Training Modules to treat the cause of the learning problems.

SOI Modules are formatted for different age groups– kindergarten through adults. Each module is articulated from easy to difficult, and is designed to provide the foundation for the specific learning ability. In a school setting each module requires about two weeks of study– assuming 30 to 45 minutes a day.