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Labels like Dyslexia, a Learning Disability or ADHD are misleading and miss the one key point about most smart struggling students -- they learn differently. At 3D Learner, we leave the labels at the door and ask the following 3 questions:
Does your child remember details from movies, even from years ago?
Does your child like Legos and or Kinex?
Does your child learn best when they see and experience information?
If this describes your child, there is a good chance they are a right-brained learner. Five key points about right-brained learners
- Based on a study by an Dr. Linda Silverman from the Gifted Development Center -- 62% of the students today are what she labels visual-spatial learners. We call these students right-brained learners, because they use the creative, problem solving and visually strong part of their brain to learn best
- Right-brained learners do far better with right-brained programs. Dyslexia programs tend to be left-brained programs that are logical, sequential, auditory and boring. A
- Right-brained learners will do their best when they are engaged in the process
- Right-brained learners often skip words and lines when reading, reverse numbers and letters and/or have attention challenges
- Right-brained learners get the best help when their parents realized they are right-brained learners and take them to right-brained-programs and to professionals who understand them.
My name is Mira Halpert. I have a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Michigan. I have four great kids. Two of them excelled in school; the other two were equally bright, but they struggled with reading comprehension.
For 7 years we struggled. Psychologists used labels like Dyslexia, a Learning Disability and ADHD. They recommended tutors, phonics-based programs and learning centers.
None of them worked well. My husband Mark and I were both incredibly frustrated.
In 8th grade, my daughter Julie was told she was not college material. I became
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