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Welcome Parents!

Do you have a visual-spatial child? Let's find out!

  • Does your child remember what is seen
    but forget what is heard?
  • Does your child have a vivid imagination?1Z787Y560304955843
  • Can your child visualize objects from
    multiple perspectives?
  • Does your child enjoy solving puzzles and mazes?

These are children who would reather spend the day
with a new box of LEGOs than do nearly anything
else in the world. Kids who can get so absorbed in
creative play, they lose all sense of time.

Often labeled unorganized, unfocused, poor spellers
or worse, visual-spatial learners can be
equal parts pleasure and frustration
to parent. We're here to help!

Soccer dad

Illustrated by Buck Jones
All rights reserved. Copyright, 2002

Let's get started:

What is a visual-spatial learner? Learn more.
Have your child take the VSL Quiz!

Have a question about parenting a visual-spatial learner? Check out
PowerTools, our new Q&A forum hosted by Linda Powers Leviton!

Check out our Exceptional Children page for
information on Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners and
Visual-Spatial Children with Learning Disabilities.

We've got articles written specifically for parents
that will help you identify your child's
learning style, give them strategies to succeed
in school, maintain harmony at home, and more.

And books for you, your child and your child's teacher!

Clean Rooms?

Illustrated by Buck Jones
All rights reserved. Copyright, 2002

 

 

A special
welcome

from
Dr. Linda
Silverman
and
Director
Betty Maxwell

 
 
 
Books:
Upside-Down Brilliance

Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
by Dr. Linda Silverman, pioneer of the visual-spatial learner concept.
Based on over 20 years of Dr. Silverman's research, this book is the
blueprint for identifying, teaching, parenting and living with visual-spatial
children and adults. Upside-Down Brilliance includes critical information
on testing and assessment, learning disabilities, teaching techniques,
the Visual-Spatial Identifier, and much more!

Copies of Upside-Down Brilliance are available from Helen Dudeney at Australian Gifted Support.

Presentations:

Is a member of the Visual-Spatial Resource Access Team speaking near you?
Would you like to schedule a speaker to present? We are available for district
in-services, staff development, parent night and corporate training events. For
more information on rates, abstracts and other details, please e-mail us!

All of the following articles are downloadable as PDF files. If you have difficulty, please
right click on the title to save to your hard drive. Thank you!

 

Articles specifically for Parents:

Activities to Enhance Auditory Processing

Confessions of a Non-Visual-Spatial Learner

Diagnostic Checklist of Writing Disabilities

Maintaining Harmony at Home

Power of Images

Reading Readiness for Visual-Spatial Learners

Sleep Issues for Visual-Spatial Learners

Staying Awake During Lectures by Keeping the Right Hemisphere in the Game

Taking Notes in Picture Form -- A Powerful Strategy for Visual-Spatial Learners

Teaching Reading to Visual-Spatial Learners

A Visualization Approach to Spelling

The VSL: An Introduction

Visual-Spatial Learners and the Art of Writing

Visual-Spatial Learners and the Challenge of Spelling

Visual-Spatial Learners Under Pressure: The Dreaded Timed Test

Using Visual-Spatial Strengths to Memorize New Material

Whole Word Approach to Reading Instruction

 

 

 

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