What kind of learner is your child? Chapter 3...

            How to identify what kind of learner your child is…
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Ask the child a set of questions depending on their age and verbal development.  What did you do on your school holidays?  How do you spell your name back to front?  Tell me the alphabet back to front?  
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When you are asking the questions make sure you are down at their level as you need to be engaged with the child in their world and you need to be able to see where their eyes look while they think.  If the child looks upwards they are a Visual dominate learner.  If the child looks to the side they are a Audio dominate learner and if they look down to the ground they are a Kinaesthetic dominate learner.
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While you watch for which direction they are looking in also watch out to see if they look left or right or both right and left.  If the child looks upwards and towards the right they are a Visual right brain dominate learner.  If they look to the side and look to the right and the left sides this child is an Audio dominate learner who is both right and left brain active in their thinking capacity.  You may even get a child who looks upwards some times and to the left and then down to the right and then even side to side.  This process needs you to spend a while asking a whole set of questions because you will need to see where the child’s learning styles move around depending on what they are thinking about.
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If you have a very young child, even a baby, all you have to do is watch them while they play to identify what dominate learning style they are.  If the baby moves around and does not sit still very often you have a Kinaesthetic dominate learner.  If the baby sits and is watching everyone and everything you have a visual dominate learner and the baby that just sits contently 90% of the time and will jump out of its skin when a loud sound happens you have an Audio dominate learner.
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Although children from birth are dominate in one different learning style, what should happen in a perfect world, is they slowly develop all other areas of learning and grow up competent and balanced human beings but if poverty or family crises or abuse or trauma happens along that learning continuum all sorts of blockages prevent many children ever moving into their full potential and developing all their hidden capacities.
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What I have found is 90% of these blockages can be removed and the child can get back onto the learning continuum and embrace other learning styles.
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Children also learn through putting things into their mouths and through the sense of smell.  Another indicator of dominate learning styles is to listen to the words used by each of the children you are working with.  Children that speak words such as see, look, feel are Visual dominate learners.  Children that speak words such as hear, think, or understand are Audio dominate learners and the child that does not want to speak at all unless you are doing something with them are Kinaesthetic dominate learners.
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When the five outside senses or learning receptors of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting experience the physical outside world...a common faculty collects all that learned data and relays it straight to the first of the inside faculties of imagination.  After the imagination the physical experiences are pasted onto the thinking faculty. From the thinking faculty the data is moved into the faculty of comprehension and then finally housed in the individual’s memory faculty. The outside senses are the unique individual’s physical learning receptors that pass over all data to the spiritual powers inside.
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It is through these relationships that each human being develops and learns uniquely how they perceive and respond to the world around them.

   

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