College & Careers with SOI

TESTING FOR POTENTIAL SOI matches careers to your profile of abilities. Help high school students, college students, and adults think about their careers! The SOI test produces a profile of learning abilities for the client. Those abilities are then compared to the abilities required for specific careers. The purpose of the comparison is to show the clients where their potential might be used in the work force. SOI assessments identify students at risk for college completion with: broad-spectrum tests assessing intellectual abilities tests of creative and critical thinking abilities behavioral/character analyses for motivation diagnostic information learning style identification: figural, symbolic,…

SOI Memory Training

The Structure of Intellect assesses many different learning abilities. What often shows up as the lowest overall ability is memory – both visual and auditory. If you think of memory as “the developed art of paying attention,” then you begin to understand why this is a growing concern in education, especially in elementary school.Comprehension is diminished by lower memory ability and problem-solving becomes frustrating when memory ability fails to recall correct information. Fortunately, SOI is in the business of training memory! MEMORY FACTS memory is the ability to retrieve information that has been previously understood a lack of memory abilities…

Making the Most of SOI Learning Abilities Test Results

SOI tests are tests of learning abilities. If someone is having difficulty learning, the cause may be a lack of learning abilities. Our tests are a great way to get a snapshot of students’ learning abilities and to see their learning potential. Now that you know more about your students’ learning abilities, what’s next? How do you help all of these unique students? EMPOWER YOUR STUDENTS. LET US HELP. The SOI test results have profiled your students’ strong and weak abilities. Now what? SOI is the easiest and most efficient way to improve their learning abilities. We provide you with…

Taking the Next Step in Learning with SOI

At SOI Systems, we provide you with practical ways to help your students succeed. SOI is a system of assessments and training materials that develop intellectual abilities and learning functions. We equip students with the necessary intellectual skills to learn subject matter, do analytical thinking, become more creative, and, most importantly, learn how to learn. GIFTED & TALENTED The robustness of the SOI tests helps incorporate students with gifts in areas not usually included in other assessments. figural, symbolic, evaluation, and creativity abilities are all evaluated to be considered along with students who are gifted in the traditional semantic abilities.…

EFU: Visual Discrimination

Visual discrimination is an important part of the learning process. The cognitive learning skill known as “Evaluation of Figural Units” or EFU is another in the series of the six abilities that must be in place for a student to learn to read. Remember Brian in my former blog? He was the little guy who couldn’t tell the difference between a 5 and a 3 on a consistent basis. Brian also had a visual discrimination (EFU) problem. One of the “Six Essential Abilities” skills necessary to learn to read is EFU, or visual discrimination. This skill is a bedrock ability…

Classification: A Skill for Life

Comprehension of Figural Classes (CFC) at a lower level is the ability to group and sort. It is how we begin to comprehend. These are yellow; these are red. Beginning with same and different, we ask ourselves, “In what way are these things the same or different? Is this the only way they are the same or different? How else could they be grouped?” The skill of logical thought is classification. In a very basic way, it helps us to make sense of our world. In a young child’s world it explains, “This is mama’s. This is daddy’s. This belongs…

SOI CFU: Filling in the Blanks

What’s the big deal about CFU? Ask Brian. “Brian can’t tell the difference in a 5 and a 3 and he sure can’t begin to read! He’s severe! Good luck on that one!” That was my first introduction to a very “special” student as I began my career in education. Brian had a problem with CFU. CFU is just one of six intellectual abilities that you have to have to be ready to read. What does that mean? And what does identifying a picture tell me about being able to read? In the world of the Structure of Intellect, CFU…

Memory Training for The Child Who Can’t Remember

MEMORY IS THE ABILITY TO RETRIEVE INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY UNDERSTOOD. "My child just can't remember!" When I hear this statement from a parent or educator, my mind switches into a questioning mode. What kinds of things don’t they remember? Can you give me an example of what they can’t remember? Is it just one thing? Is it multiple things? Is it situational? What’s happening when they can’t remember? Is the information they don’t remember visual or auditory? Is the difficulty in remembering information or numbers? No, I don’t badger the witness; I just wonder. The good news is…

ALA-PLA: Remote SOI Career & School Placement Testing

CASE STUDY: 20 YEAR OLD MALE ON THE SPECTRUM I have come to really enjoy using the ALA-PLA test globally. The SOI ALA results below illustrate a difficult case, and I’d like to explain how I, as a psychologist, discussed the results with the parents. The goal of testing was to provide guidance for future (college) educational and career paths. First, it was important for me to identify his interests: classic comic books, film editing, and photography. He took the SOI test on 2 medications: Focalin (ADHD) and Strattera. SOI identified his intellectual gift as transformational thinking (which I found…

The Door Opener to the Visual System

The SOI assessments provide information about an individual’s ability to process visual information. Over the years, I have actually become more impressed with how hard the eyes have to work in order to actively engage the mind in the learning process, in remembering visual information, and in correctly solving problems with that information. This is perhaps the most misunderstood group of sub-tests in the SOI Model. Vision is thought of as eyesight, visual acuity, and the health of the eyes. We are often told that an individual is concerned about his/her poor reading ability, lack of comprehension, and misreading words,…

College & Careers with SOI

SOI Memory Training

Making the Most of SOI Learning Abilities Test Results

Taking the Next Step in Learning with SOI

EFU: Visual Discrimination

Classification: A Skill for Life

SOI CFU: Filling in the Blanks

Memory Training for The Child Who Can’t Remember

ALA-PLA: Remote SOI Career & School Placement Testing

The Door Opener to the Visual System

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