Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids:
Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
 
Alexandra "Allie" Golon is a Master Teacher at Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted & Creative in Boulder, Colorado. As the former director of the Visual-Spatial Resource, a Gifted & Talented teacher, and parent to two gifted visual-spatial learners, Allie brings a wealth of experience to her books, Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child, If You Could See the Way I Think: A Handbook for Visual-Spatial Kids, and The Visual-Spatial Classroom. Her latest release, Visual-Spatial Learners: Differentiation Strategies for Creating a Successful Classroom is a rich source of classroom strategies that will help every student succeed, regardless of preferred learning style. Allie has been invited to present on teaching and parenting visual-spatial learners at state, national and international venues. She has appeared on talk radio programs and in various print media and her articles can be found in a variety of journals and magazines. (Allie@Visual-Learners.com)
 
Visual-spatial learners (VSLs) are often artists, inventors, builders, creators, musicians, computer gurus, visionaries and healers. They are empathic and, often, very spiritually aware, even when very young. These children have powerful right hemispheres and learn in multi-dimensional images, while most schools, most teachers and most curricula are a haven for left-hemispheric thinking, or auditory-sequential learners; children who think and learn in words, rather than images, and in a step-by-step fashion. Though visual-spatial students are often very bright, they don't always find success in academic environments. (www.Visual-Learners.com).
 
Topics include:

• What is a Visual-Spatial Learner?
   
  
• The differences between right brain and left brain thinkers and learners
   
  
• How to determine our own and our children's preferred learning styles
   
  
• Specific strategies for success at school and maintaining harmony at home (particularly if you're NOT visual-spatial!)
   
  
• Advocating for your child, working with educators, and specific strategies for success in traditional classrooms.

* Listeners can visit www.inspiredparenting.com to download a free explanatory article entitled Upside Down Brilliance - Strategies for Teaching Visual-Spatial Learners by Linda Kreger-Silverman, Ph.D. which includes The Visual-Spatial Learner Learning Characteristics Comparison Charts.