(20 reviews) Author: Linda Kreger Silverman ISBN : 9781932186000 New from Format: PDFFrom the Inside Flap
Whoever you are—parent, educator, or just a plain person—read this book! In its pages you will find new ways of understanding and supporting some of humanity's most useful minds. Linda Silverman provides a map to a complex and magnificent mental world where you or someone you care about may have felt lost. Stephanie Tolan Co-author of the award-winning book, Guiding the Gifted Child, and author of numerous books for young adults. 2003 Newbery Award recipient
I’ve been waiting for this book for years, and it is everything I hoped for and more. It is wise, warm, funny, practical, intensely personal, and truly inspirational. It belongs on the shelf of every parent whose child does not seem to fit in the mainstream, and of every teacher who wants to reach those students who have clear potential but just can’t seem to "get it" when it comes to tests, and of all adolescents and adults who have struggled with those problems themselves and may still be struggling. Richard M. Felder Co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University
Linda Silverman has written a graceful and much needed book that highlights different kinds of spatial intelligence. She has focused on the type of visual thinking women use and in so doing has turned the searchlight on a relatively unexamined area. This book will help change the way you think about "seeing." Leonard Shlain, M.D. Author of the best-seller, The Alphabet vs. the Goddess, and Art & Physics
Linda Silverman provides us with a holistic–visual–spatial perspective of the complexities of brilliant, but academically challenged, minds. She offers an understanding of their upside-down world. More importantly, she tells us how their struggles can be overcome! Ronald D. Davis Author of The Gift of Dyslexia
About the Author
improving teaching strategies for this population for more than 20 years. Linda has written over 300 articles, chapters and books related to gifted, learning disabled, and other learners.
- Paperback: 436 pages
- Publisher: DeLeon Publishing; 1st edition (September 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 193218600X
- ISBN-13: 978-1932186000
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner – September 1, 2002 PDF
Two years ago, I had my son tested at the Gifted Development Center (run by the author), and found that he was a visual-spatial learner. He's a very bright kid with a great building/inventing aptitude and imagination. He understands higher mathematics, but it took 2 years to learn all the addition facts (which are still not fast). He has an incredibly good reading comprehension, but has a very difficult time spelling. He was a frustrating child because he seemed so bright, yet struggled with the simplest things. The GDC gave me some tips on teaching visual-spatial learners (which helped), but until I read this book, I didn't know that I didn't have much of a clue of what a visual-spatial learner was!
I never knew it, but I don't think like most people. I thought everyone recalled things in bright, colorful pictures, often with sound bites, sometimes even with smells. I assumed that everyone remembered the words in books by remembering where they lay on the page, interspersed with the book's illustrations. That's how I remember, how I think, how I learn... in Upside-Down Brilliance I learned that I am a visual-spatial learner.
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