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

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

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
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: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #883,382 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 An Excellent book for parents, educators and counselors., December 5, 2003

By	Marjorie "Marjorie" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

We know children don't arrive with instruction manuals but this book comes close. By organizing children's learning styles as "lookers," "listeners," or "movers," Dr. Lauren Bradway and Ms. Hill have made it easier for parents, teachers and anyone involved with children, to not only encourage a child's innate gifts but also in building upon those gifts. When parents, professionals and educators accept a child's inherent qualities and personality and work with it a child's confidence is increased, paving a road of positive learning experiences. In response, a child will feel safer and more confident to undertake new and more challenging tasks.

As I was reading this book I learned that my own learning style since childhood has been a "listener" and reminisced how during my school years, I was often misunderstood and forced to learn in a way incompatible with my own style, which created stress for me. How I wish my parents and many of my educators had had access to this book back then. I've since developed and love the "mover," and "looker," sides of me, but how much simpler the whole process would have been if I had had the guidance as a child!

How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability is written in a thoughtful, explicit, well detailed and researched way. It is chock-full of useful information, clear case studies, toys, learning aids and recommendations, for the parents of children of all ages from preschoolers to teens.

I highly recommend this book for parents and teachers as well as for psychologists, psychotherapists and anyone who works with children. I will be using this book as an aid in family counseling and recommending it to my clients who have children. I have already bought several copies for the parents of our young nephews and nieces.

Ileana M. Sisson, M.S.