Viconic Language Methods (VLMs) was coined by Arwood to refer to the composite of more than 50 ways that she used methods aligned with the NsLLT within the ANM to provide effective outcomes for children and their families across ages, diagnoses, and levels of function.  All of these methods are based on “what works.” As a practitioner first, Arwood had her first professional jobs with children with whom others did not want to work. So, Arwood created methods that would work. Many of these methods did not match with what she was being taught. Arwood read and read and read along with obtaining much educational knowledge at universities and conferences. Eventually she began to put the theory together that matched the effectiveness of the VLMs. Theory always helps improve practice!

Neuro-Viconic Educational System (NvES) is an explanation for how to take the NsLLT at the nexus of the ANM along with the VLMs into the classroom. Written by Ellyn Arwood and Alyse Rostamizadeh, the NvES is a systemic approach to learning designed to meet the holistic needs of all children. The NvES rests on four principle beliefs: 1) All learning is brain-based (NsLLT); 2) All children learn to think (VLMs); 3) All children learn to be pro-social (Language of RESPECT, 2000); and 4) All children learn through context or event-based learning.  The NvES is not a program but an approach that necessitates professional learning, starting with understanding the NsLLT and then learning how to use some of the VLMs eventually creating an event-based context for maximum conceptual learning.