For Adults Only: Were you a visual learner in school?

For Adults Only:

Were you a visual learner in school?

Greetings!

I've received several wonderful letters recently from adults who are very visual learners. You might see yourself in what they wrote about their experiences in school, where "success" is based on words -- listening to words, reading words, writing words. When you have a brain that thinks in pictures and movies, school can be a very difficult experience.

As one dear friend described it (see School Daze below), "Sometimes on tests I could remember the page a name or date was on, see the illustration of a ship in raging seas, see the boldface heading, see the line where the answer was, but the actual numbers or words were blurred too much to accurately determine."

I also continue to make friends through Facebook. A new Facebook Friend found me through my book Maverick Mind. She wrote to me: "When I came across your book in a Walden's, I was casting desperately for help with my youngest son. From the first page I was drawn in, because you could have been writing my own experience." Read more below in Facebook Friends.

Adult Mavericks -- those who have strong visual brains and who have occupations or hobbies that use those strong visual skills -- most likely have children who have strong visual brains. It is genetic, and one of the single biggest predictors of whether a child's symptoms are due to an overly active visual brain.

If you are an Adult Maverick, and you have a child who has been diagnosed with autism (ASD), PDD, ADD or other disorders effecting school performance and behavior, I urge you to sign up for a free screening today. There is every hope that our training programs can lead to a symptom-free life.

Wishing you all the best in this holiday season,

Dr. Cheri Florance

CEO, Brain Engineering Labs

www.cheriflorance.com

SCHOOL DAZE:

Being A Student - And A Teacher - With A Strong Visual Brain

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A dear friend recently wrote to me, recalling his experiences as a student - and then as a teacher - with a strong visual brain, and how that effected his experiences in both situations.

In one sense, he was thanking me for the work I do with Mavericks to help them succeed in school and life. But his recollections about his experiences may sound familiar to many.

Life As AStudent With A Strong Visual Brain

My problem in school was scoring way too high on the IQ tests, and then being tested on only one component of mental functioning, rote memory. I cannot memorize by rote.

"Aww...that's just a matter of effort!!!! Anyone can do it!" I've heard that all my life, and all my life I have known it is trash.

It isn't that I didn't understand the material; there was nothing to understand at all. It was all terms, dates, names, like all the tests of my childhood.

If it sounds like I was heartbroken in childhood, I was not. I did feel contempt and anger towards the school, and was sullen and quiet until pushed too far. Then I could become mean. Although I read adult books by age 8 in science, classic literature, history, and current events, my world was nearly totally physical. I never discussed what I read; I communicated through football, basketball, baseball, boxing, fighting, running, wrestling, etc.

All though college I had trouble with rote tests, until finally finding, in law school, a place I could do well. Unfortunately, I found no funding and took a leave of absence to make more money. I got hooked on teaching and working with kids as a teacher, coach, tutor, adviser, parent or as friend.

Life As A Teacher With A Strong Visual Brain

During my years as a teacher, I tried to help my students with memory by acquainting them with mnemonic devices (none of which worked for me), and organizational techniques. But I also told them about my own problems with rote memory.

IQ is a dangerous concept that indicates something, but I have never been sure what that it is, exactly, despite spending over forty years thinking about it. The "retarded" kids I sometimes worked with seemed no less intelligent than any other student despite being profoundly handicapped in school and in life.

I do not say that as a sympathetic person; I say that as someone who coldly analyzed these children after I was finished interacting. Trapped inside these children is something no different than what is at the core of everyone else, and I am not referring to the soul or some emotional or spiritual essence.

Thank You, Dr. Florance

I have rarely heard anyone acknowledge the fact that people have different ways of remembering. This is important work you are doing, and I hope enough people appreciate it to make you feel as if all your efforts are worthwhile. I know they are. You are a hero.

FREE SCREENING

Brain AMP no words The purpose of the screening is to do an initial assessment to determine if your child would be a good candidate for Brain Engineering programs where Dr. Florance herself will customize a program appropriate for your child's learning needs.

The screening is done by telephone and takes about 30 minutes.

To schedule a free screening, call or email:

1-866-865-9820, ext 2 - brainengineeringlabs@gmail.com

OR schedule the appointment yourself using our online calendar!

Click on the button below, select "Free Screening," choose a day and time that's convenient, and we will call you then.

FACEBOOK FRIENDS

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I can hardly believe it -- I now have almost 800 friends through Facebook! OK, maybe I don't know each and everyone one of these Friends personally. But I do get interesting messages occasionally, like this one from a mom who discovered me first through my book Maverick Mind. She wrote:

When I came across your book in a Walden's I was casting desperately for help with my youngest son. From the first page I was drawn in, because you could have been writing my own experience.

My son is now in third grade and doing remarkably well, especially considering that when he was three the doctors told me he was moderately to severely autistic and would never progress far past where he was then -- that I should expect to have him dependent on me forever, and that he'd always wear diapers. Ridiculous!

Even then I could see he was brilliant -- just locked. When he was thirsty, he would go to the fridge and pull out a half gallon of milk and bring it to me. That showed me he was resourceful. He had no words, but he was determined to communicate.

I am condensing years into paragraphs. I read your book and I devoted myself to finding ways to help him come out of himself. I am a professional artist and writer, so maybe to some extent this worked to our mutual advantage. I knew we'd broke ground the day he stopped making individual separate paint marks on the page and let the colors mingle with each other.

He has no idea of his diagnosis because I have a terror of him finding out and then limiting himself, as those doctors already had. He takes speech therapy at school, which I almost feel he no longer needs, and he is still under an "autism" classification at the school which I am trying to remove. The teachers are urging me to keep it because "he might need it". I am growing more doubtful of that as time goes on and my son continues to excel.

Again, thank you so much for accepting my friend request. I am truly honored.

Thank you for reading. If your child has been diagnosed with symptoms related to a strong visual brain interfering with his or her ability to develop language skills, there is a good prognosis for your child becoming symptom-free through our programs.

I look forward to hearing from you,