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How to Stimulate Visual Kids

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Visual kids have a combination video-and-still camera in their heads. They like to see things. Pictures, colours and visual representations of things are their main information carriers. These kids learn best and expresses themselves best using pictures, graphs and colours. To them, one picture really IS worth a thousand words.

Visual kids use colours, graphs and pictures to learn the sounds around them.

Here are some ideas that help visual kids learn better…

This post is part 1 of 4 in the series How to Stimulate Kids

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December 20, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Kids / Children, Parenting Tags: child care, communication, communication styles, early childhood, k-12 education, kindergarten, learning disabilities, learning styles, practical parenting / parents, preschool, toddlers, visual

Diagnosing Learning Difficulties and Gifted Children in the Early Years

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It was psychologist Howard Gardner’s book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which first questioned the common psychological orthodoxy about intelligence, the intelligence quotient (IQ), and presented the revolutionary concept of Multiple Intelligences. At a time when a set of tests positioned children in a single spot on the bell curve and educators’ capacity to affect this position was seen as limited, the dawn of multiple intelligences shone a light at the end of a tunnel.

With this great recognition of our ability to enhance intelligence, the two extreme parts of the bell curve – the children with the learning difficulties and the gifted children – became the center of attention. Those two seemingly unrelated ranges of ability require the same type of attention and multiple intelligences brought hope for improvement for both.

A natural progression of that was the area of early diagnosis and early intervention. Should we diagnose learning difficulties during early childhood or will this put a label on them that is too hard to remove? Should we diagnose gifted children or will this doom them to isolation and social challenges? And once a special need is identified, should we intervene or just let nature take its course and allow the kids to “grow out of it”?

Each of the questions presents the choice between a reactive and a proactive approach. For government organizations, these questions are translated to the cost difference between the two, which then determines the approach. For teachers, however, critical time plays an important role in the choice.

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December 13, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Emotional Intelligence, Kids / Children Tags: auditory, child care, communication, communication styles, digital, early childhood, gifted, k-12 education, kindergarten, kinesthetic, learning disabilities, learning styles, success, toddlers, visual

When Do Kids Learn Left and Right and How to Teach It Best

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Telling left from right is very useful in life. Without it, we lose our sense of direction. Every parent tries to teach their young children to tell which is their right hand, and which is their left, so they can do basic things.

Many parents ask me why their children confuse right and left and how to teach them easily.

The reason children confuse between right and left can be organic (learning difficulties), emotional (stress and low emotional intelligence) or bad teaching.

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October 18, 2007 by Ronit Baras In: Ask Ronit, Education / Learning, Parenting Tags: child care, early childhood, k-12 education, kids / children, kindergarten, learning disabilities, practical parenting / parents, special education, teaching / teachers, toddlers

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