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Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Do you know things without being able to explain how or why? Do you solve problems in unusual ways? Do you think in pictures rather than in words? If so, you are not alone. One-third of the population thinks in images. You may be one or you may live with one. If you teach, it is absolutely certain that some of your studentsprobably the ones you aren't reachingare visual-...more
Paperback, 436 pages
Published
September 28th 2002
by DeLeon Publishing, Inc.
(first published September 2002)
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Wow! This book is amazing! I now have a completely new understanding to the way my mind works and how I learn. Visual-Spatial Learners are not usually recognized for their strengths, abilities and gifts in a traditional school environment and often struggle to be understood and to show their understanding and grasp of concepts and material. Most school environments are geared towards Auditory-Sequential Learners and it often takes a special teacher to tap into a Visual-Spatial Learner.
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Fabulous book describing the characteristics of visual-spatial learners and how to help them. These are the kids who are awesome with Legos, can remember every place you visited in the last 5 years and can sometimes have difficulty with phonics. Some suggestions are to allow them to jump around within learning (the easy stuff seems hard, but the hard stuff seems easy to them) and to use lots of visuals to help them remember (painting a picture of the word in their brains so they can recite it fo...more
Upside Down Brilliance is full of encouragement and practical advice for parents and teachers who support a twice-exceptional (also known as "2e") kid. The author provides many "light bulb" examples to illustrate why some kids can be gifted in difficult subjects and yet struggle with basic skills. I was enlightened to realize that not everyone thinks in words (auditory-sequential learner); many brilliant people think in pictures (visual-spatial learner). I encourage all who love an insatiable bi...more
This one has lots of great info, and a very good outlook on why some people are just different in the way they communicate and learn. She proposes that most people who do well in school, and teachers, are all auditory and sequential in the way they learn, and those who are smart but just don't fit into the traditional school mold are visual-spatial. They don't get step by step stuff, only ideas in big pictures. Artists, musicians, people good at puzzles, engineers, lego maniacs. I may have one o...more
This book really gave me so much insight to the way my mind works as well as the way I suspect that my husband & children's minds work as well. It definitely made me understand some of the whys as to why some things seem to be so much more difficult for me, etc. It was nice to shed some light on things...
I'm seriously contemplating "losing" my library copy of this, just so I can own this book!! It's that good. It also talks about introverts/extroverts, AD/HD, plus a ton of other stuff. If you don't understand your kid, or if you know he's different than other kids, this is a must read!
Linda Silverman is wonderful! THis book gave me new insights and was one of the factors that led to our new book" Bright Not Broken about twice-exceptional kids Who They Are-Why-They Are Stuck- How to Help Them. Thank you Linda for making it all so clear!
The perfect book for any parent who has a "quirky" child who has been deemed a behavior problem in school because he would rather talk, move around, or draw pictures rather than memorize math facts or write a story.
My only negative is that the book focuses largely on identification. I would have appreciated more concrete suggestions for successful experiences.
My only negative is that the book focuses largely on identification. I would have appreciated more concrete suggestions for successful experiences.
Filled with AHAA moments,if you have any of these people in your family. Could literally be a life saving book if your child is gifted or an extreme visual learner.
I learned a few useful things, but right/left brain research always reads a little bit like horoscopes. You can read into it what you want.
I didn't buy into her basic premise that visual spatial learners are a beleaguered minority. After all, her research showed that 30-40% of children are VSL and 20-25 are auditory sequential learners with the rest lying in between. Thus, the ASLs are the minority.
I didn't buy into her basic premise that visual spatial learners are a beleaguered minority. After all, her research showed that 30-40% of children are VSL and 20-25 are auditory sequential learners with the rest lying in between. Thus, the ASLs are the minority.
I love books that help me see how thinking differently then other people really doesn't diminish brilliance, and maybe it even enhances it!
A largely anecdotal, and inconsistently conceived construct of visual-spatial learners.
A lot of stories of kids or adult living as right brain learner, some solutions but not much help.
Feb 04, 2009
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This book describes James perfectly. . .he is definitely a visual/spatial learner. I found the book informative and interesting and definitely worth reading, yet I felt like she could have cut out about 100 pages and done better. . .
Who knew I was a visual-based learner? If you have a child or relationship with someone that isn't responding to your verbal requests, knows things but can't trace back why they know it, wild imagination, (there are so many more things to list), I recommend seeing if they are a visual-based learner. Their right-hemisphere may be the dominate part of their brain and therefore respond to learning in a different way than the typical school book approach.
For all those who don't understand why some people read books and instructions from end to beginning; for those who think in pictures and have a hard time grasping dis-embedded factoids. I love this book. I would recommend reading it accompanied by a book on Gardner's theory of eight intelligences.
this book unraveled a lot of mysteries for me. Now I know why some people cannot understand something when I am explaining it and why I cannot understand some people. I was always amazed that there are actually people who never get lost, even though I have some like that in my own family.
This book helped me understand Ethan so much more. It helped me understand the way he processes information. Recommend it for everyone. It even helped me understand some things about Dan.
Great book with lots of insight for parents of visual-spatial kids.
Great for learning all you want to know about visual-spacial learners
Mar 08, 2008
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I really hate having to read books like this but it's helpful so far.
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