How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability (Paperback)

~ Lauren Bradway (Author), Barbara Albers Hill (Author)

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Square One Publishers (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757000967
• ISBN-13: 978-0757000966
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #333,040 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for parents, July 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Maximize Your Child (Paperback)

This book helped me to discover, while my daughter was still an infant, that she is a mover type of learner. According to the author, this type of learner tends to be the least successful in school. However, this book taught me how to build on my child's innate style to develop her other capabilities as "looker" and "listener". Now, at almost 5 years of age, my daughter has a more balanced learning style and is doing wonderfully in preschool. Even though not all of the games, toys, and other resources recommended in the book are available where I live, the concepts are clear enough so that I am able to apply them with the things that are within my reach. This would make an excellent gift to new parents.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wealth of information and creative suggestions!, January 8, 2001

By	MyParenTime.com "myparentimesfamily" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Maximize Your Child (Paperback)

What a wonderful book this is! Dr. Lauren Bradway and Barbara Albers Hill do an excellent job of describing what "Looker", "Listener", and "Mover" children are. They also show parents how they can help their children become a more "balanced learner"!

I enjoyed reading the examples of each child's learning style, and was appreciative for the many informative checklists spread throughout the book. Parents can discover what kind of learning style their child has, and put to use the many wonderful suggestions provided throughout the book. These ideas will show parents how they can help their children develop their own style of learning.

My ParenTime recommends "How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability" -- it's informative, easy-to-read, and full of creative suggestions that parents can immediately put to use in their own families!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helping children discover "balance", October 21, 2003

By	Judith Costello (Moriarty, NM United States) - See all my reviews

Balance-this is a key to happiness in life. And to find balance in the skills of Looking, Listening and Moving is crucial for our children as they navigate the masses of information they will encounter as they grow. Dr. Bradway's book How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability is an invaluable resource in helping children create balance in their lives. By first identifying the child's inherent skills and then reinforcing those less dominant abilities, our children can learn to observe, focus and take appropriate action. Thus they will be successful in learning and in life. Thank you Dr. Bradway for the volumes of resources your have culled and the inspiration you provide!