How to Maximize Your Child - Softcover

Hill, Barbara Albers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895295199 ISBN 13: 9780895295194

Publisher: Avery, 1992

Synopsis

How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability is a complete guide to choosing and using the best games, toys, activities, learning aids and tactics to maximize your child's learning ability.

Here is a book that offers parents hundreds of practical things they can do in daily life to influence, encourage, and-best of all-maximize their child's learning ability. Whether you have a young child attending preschool or a teen in high school, you can provide the essential experiences to enable your child to excel in many areas.

In private practice for more than 25 years, Dr. Lauren Bradway has observed that children, beginning in infancy, tend to favor a particular way of taking in and recalling information. Some children prefer sights, others sounds, and still others, touch and movement. Dr. Bradway refers to these three styles of learners as Lookers, Listeners and Movers respectively.

After determining a particular child's learning style, she selects toys, games and learning strategies to reinforce talents a child was blessed with at birth and to encourage skills that do not come as naturally.

In How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability, Dr. Bradway shares the techniques and methods she utilizes in a clinical setting with children. She'll teach you how to develop an individual program for your child designed to produce a more self-assured and balanced learner.

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Reviews

According to Bradway, a communication disorders specialist, children are born with an innate tendency to absorb information primarily through either visual, auditory, or tactile means. As they grow, they tend to cultivate the skills corresponding to their preferred style of learning, at the expense of others that do not come as easily. The authors' intent is to help parents determine a child's learning style and use this knowledge both to strengthen natural abilities and to develop skills that might be lagging. Each chapter focuses on one stage of development, from infancy through eighth grade, and presents case studies of distinctive learners. A topic relevant to the age group is then discussed, and specific suggestions for toys, games, and activities that enhance each learning style are offered. This clearly written and practical book offers a proven approach to improving children's social and academic skills. Recommended for parenting collections.
- Linda Cullum, Lake Superior State Univ. Lib., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Avery
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895295199
• ISBN 13: 9780895295194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288