Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child
Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons provide an effective method for helping children with Attention Deficit Disorder excel in a classroom setting.In straightforward language, this book explains how to use the innovative “Learning Styles Inventory” to test for a right-brained learning style; help an ADD child master spelling—and build confidence—by committing complicated words to visual memory;
Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons provide an effective method for helping children with Attention Deficit Disorder excel in a classroom setting.
In straightforward language, this book explains how to use the innovative “Learning Styles Inventory” to test for a right-brained learning style; help an ADD child master spelling—and build confidence—by committing complicated words to visual memory; tap an ADD kid’s amazing speed-reading abilities by stressing sight recognition and scanning rather than phonics; access the child’s capacity to solve math problems of increasing, often astonishing complexity—without pen or paper; capitalize on the “writing and weaning” technique to help the child turn mental images into written words; and win over teachers and principals to the right-brained approach the ADD child thrives on. For parents who have longed to help their ADD child quickly and directly, Freed and Parsons’s approach is nothing short of revolutionary. This is the first book to offer them reason for hope and a clear strategy for enabling their child to blossom.
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Unsatisfied from intensive phonics intervention My child is 5 yo right brained dyslexic, and after doing heavy phonics intervention myself for 9 months, my child is reading at age appropriate level. But I’m not satisfied, as I still see that decoding is all but natural. I’m interested in her developing her inherent talents, not in styfling it by unnaturally rewiring her brain, because this is what we do when we teach phonics. And Jeffrey presents some very practical ways to teach literacy harnessing their inherent visual spacial…
I’ve never taken the time to write a review, but! I downloaded this book yesterday and spent the whole day reading reading it. I am the mom of an 8 year old boy with ADHD and as a Social Worker I work with many ADD/ ODD/ and otherwise classified children. I have know my son was different and experiencing difficulties since he was a toddler. He is so bright, funny, loving and so emotionally attuned to my moods that I tell my husband he is an empath. Out of desperation, after much deliberation, he has been on Ritalin for a year at a very low…
Good for Dyslexics! This book has important insights into how dyslexics learn, since most dyslexics are right-brained. It includes an excellent explanation of why phonics doesn’t make sense to a right-brianed learner, and provides ideas for teaching in other ways. I used several ideas from this book in my teaching handbook, Dyslexia Tool Kit for Tutors and Parents: what to do when phonics isn’t enough. If your child is bright and curious, but school isn’t working out well for them, be sure to read this book!