23 Ways to Give Your Right-Brain a Workout
I’ve compiled a list of things that utilize our right brain skills. Try a few to give your right brain a workout.
ADD
Food Sabotaging Your School Day?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially for kids headed into the classroom. As parents, we want to feed our kids well, but we’re being flooded with a lot of mixed messages about what’s good.
Make Homework Come Alive for Visual Learners
Kids with an ADD diagnosis can benefit so much from the strategies we use with visual learners because most are visual, right brain thinkers struggling to focus their big picture thinking enough to get their work done at school. ADDitude magazine agrees with me and I got published in their spring edition!
Ways To Talk So Your Right Brain Kid Can Hear You
Every parent has experienced the frustration of trying to get their kid to listen and do what needs to be done. But when it’s a visual learner or kid with ADD, there are even more challenges. There’s a lot going on in their head, ALL the time.
Is a 504 Plan What She Needs?
If your child is struggling with focus, testing and some academic work, there is no understanding, no work around, no assistance for them as visual learners. But if your child is unfocused, distracted, struggling academically, and diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, help is available in the form of a 504 learning plan.
23 Activities Your Visual Kid Will Crush!
I’ve compiled a list of things that your visual ADD/ADHD kid will do well. These will really boost their confidence in their awesomeness. So, try them out and have fun!
Podcast: Does Your Child’s School Understand?
In episode 27 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker, I answer a parent email about a second grader whose school wanted to have him tested for ADD.
ADD…. Not Always a Deficit!
Approximately 11% of children 4 to 17 years of age have been diagnosed with ADD as of 2011, and it’s most commonly diagnosed in 7 year olds. That’s an alarming statistic, but we can turn the negatives of ADD into positives by understanding and applying the success strategies used with visual-spatial learners.
Let’s Work Together
It’s a very intense time of year for the teachers with so many new faces to get to know and so many things to accomplish in the classroom – so how can you tell her how awesome your kid is without being thought of as one of those crazy moms !?
Podcast: Does Your Child’s School Understand?
First and second grade is the time that most children are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. But many of the same characteristics of visual learners are the same traits that point to an attention deficit.
