Right Brained Child/ Person

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RIGHT BRAINED

The entire brain works together to create a complete human being, but many do have tendencies toward a specific half. Right brainers learn things in wholes rather than in parts. In thinking styles, the right brainer often goes by feeling, whereas the left brainer prefers multiple facts before coming to a conclusion. A right brain dominant child may also be classified as a visual-spatial learner, which means his brain taps into learning through visual clues, he prefers information given all at once, and learns through doing, not observing.

Left brain dominant people tend to be logical, rational, and organized. The right brain dominance fosters creativity, imagination, and artistry. Many right brain dominant children can adapt to left brain learning processes without much effort. Sometimes a child needs a totally different strategy to make learning easy.

RIGHT-BRAIN DOMINANT LEARNERS

The below are some of the characteristics of how a right brain child/ person learns:

• Learns best through movement
• Will focus on the whole picture
• Needs emotional relevance to self
• Needs to see and hear the whole image/sound in order to learn
• Prefers not to have step-by-step directions
• Works best when understanding the desired end product and intuitively does what is appropriate
• Exhibits good memory for images and whole concepts
• Might need to close eyes or turn head away from teacher in order to process learning
• Learns best with 3-D / hands-on
• Needs to move while processing new information, but with very little external stimulation that would distract
• Needs quiet time alone, especially when processing new information
• Appreciates seeing examples of what is required, hearing metaphors and associations when learning
• Must be able to see, hear, move, and or verbalize the whole context before learning details
• Needs to learn kinesthetically (using their hands) to process learning
• Quickly grasps the main idea
• Is often highly intuitive
• Picks up on the intention and emotion of the teacher while learning
• Needs to physically process what he is learning
• Learner will see the whole picture but might have difficulty breaking it down into a sequence of words in order to express what he sees
• Learner might have trouble explaining how he arrived at an answer once he’s solved it (such as in math problems when directed to show his work)
• Might reverse or transpose letters or numbers
• Although he might quickly grasp the main idea, he may have great difficulty in communicating the details in a linear way (logical sequence of steps)
• May have difficulty with penmanship
• May have difficulty listening to a lesson unless he is able to look away or shut his eyes.
• Might have difficulty with fine motor activities
• May have a difficult time processing new learning and committing it to memory unless he has time to reflect without visual or verbal stimulation

Books About Right Brained Children

THE RIGHT SIDE OF NORMAL: Understanding and Honoring the Natural Learning Path for Right-Brained Children Paperback – September 1, 2012 Cindy Gaddis (Author)

Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child Paperback – October 21, 1998, Jeffrey Freed (Author) Laurie Parsons (Author)

Right Brain Education: Changing the World, One Heart at a Time Paperback – June 1, 2009, Pamela Sue Hickein (Author)

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