Can The Engineer Brain Cause Imitation Autism-Attention Deficits
Greetings! One question that is central in my evaluation process is whether there are "visual thinkers" in the family. There is a good reason for this, as I have discovered in my many years of working in this field that strong visual brains run in the family.
My father trained as an aeronautical engineer and became a commercial pilot. He was also a world's record-holder swimmer, and as a side venture, he built a golf course and loved to renovate real estate. In high school, as an after school job, he repaired bikes at the local bike shop and later on, he restored cars.
My sons are chemical engineers. William and Whitney lettered in football and were on the wrestling team in high school, winning state championships. William now travels worldwide re-designing ovens for the Kraft Corporation so that your Oreo cookie is delivered to you fresh and delicious. As I write, he is on his way to Paris to represent Kraft as they pursue how to improve their chocolate. An avid snow boarder, he loves to hit the slopes as often as possible.
Whitney is using his knowledge as an engineer by training for the United States Corp of Engineers in very specialized applications. He has a wide range of verbal and visual interests. He runs 10 miles easily, is an expert in history, and enjoys art museums and the theater.
These achievements are a direct result of excellent visual thinking skills. Engineers think in patterns and schematics very easily. They understand how things go together. In childhood, all three - my father and my sons - liked to play with puzzles and mechanical toys.
On the other hand, I was the proverbial "good student." When I was a teen-ager, my father wanted to teach me to fly airplanes, and he was perplexed by how hard it was for me to learn. He wondered why an honor student who learned so easily in school would have such a hard time absorbing what seemed so natural to him. The visual-mechanical thinking of my father was very different from my way of thinking, mainly in words and paragraphs.
For me, it was a difficult brain task I didn't quite understand. But my father helped me understand. He let me work on airplanes with him and was a patient teacher. And I did learn how to fly an airplane! I completed my first solo flight on my 16th birthday.
But not all children of engineers have such an easy road. The incidence of learning disabilities in MIT alums is much higher than liberal arts colleges. Why is that?
For me, it is no mystery. In my work with Mavericks, I have discovered that in every case, strong visual brains run in the family. At least one parent, and sometimes several grandparents, are in professions and jobs such as engineering that require a strong visual brain. Like many skills, the tendency to have a strong visual brain runs in the family.
This becomes a problem only when the strong visual brain interferes with the development of verbal skills. When that happens, visual thinkers need help and training to develop the auditory-verbal side of the brain, just like those of us with strong verbal skills need help to train and develop our visual thinking skills.
If you don't know how to fly an airplane - and can't even imagine learning! - there is no way you can teach yourself to fly a plane.. Similarly, if you are an engineer and can easily imagine how to take an airplane apart and put it back together, but you can't imagine how to put a sentence or paragraph together, this is not a learning disability. It is a signal that you need training to develop your verbal brain skills so that they aren't overwhelmed by your strong visual brain.. |
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The Engineer's Brain and Problems With Communication and Learning
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Priority seats are given to engineers and those who have other visual thinkers in the family such as computer programmers, film makers, photographers, architects, physicians, nurses, artists, musicians, actors, athletes, bird watchers, graphic designers, CEO visionaries, advertising exectuives, real estate developers, internet business developers, just to name a few examples.
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| Parent Corner
"[My son] has always liked these concentration type games but before he would do them in a very random careless fashion. This time though I could see him trying really hard to remember what he had seen before. I was pleased with his concentration and attention here." (Mother of 9-year-old Maverick)
"I am using the visual zoom lens technique with him with his ABC bible book. On the left is some thing like: H is for Heaven, then a prayer, then on the right is a picture with H hidden in the clouds for example. He is catching on that I want him to find the hidden letters, and is getting really good, about 80% accuracy -- when he pays attention, up to 90% accuracy!" (Parent of 13-year-old Maverick."
His long term memory is still associating!! That is why hours later when I say 'Tell the fish story,' he sees one of the images - probably the last one - and then associates to find the first image. And he tells the last and first part of the story or the first and last part of the story. This is fabulous because it means we trained the short term memory to sequence and that we can train the long term memory to sequence." (Parent of Child Maverick) |
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The visual brain is very powerful and because of this overwhelming power, children can have problems with attention, memory, cooperation, motivation and communication. The visual brain can become the enemy of the auditory-verbal brain and cause it to malfunction.
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