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Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties
The right side of the brain handles:
• Thinking holistically, by looking at the whole picture
• Working with pictures
• Explaining things visually – using pictures, shapes and colour
• Expressing emotions
• Approaching life playfully
• Improvisation
• Thinking in designs
• Looks for interrelationships and links
• Intuitive understanding – draws conclusions from an intuitive basis
and a variety of sources.
Source: https://www.bradfordvts.co.uk/wp-content/onlineresources/0307teaching
learning/difficulttrainee/dyslexia%20and%20dyspraxia.pdf
It will be clear from the above list of right hemisphere attributes that, in workplace
or educational settings, people with SpLDs can have significant strengths in certain
areas that more than compensate for their difficulties. They are often creative and
innovative thinkers.
The right side of the brain learns using a very different set of skills from those of the
left, and those who use the right side of the brain therefore need different teaching
styles and techniques to enable them to learn effectively.
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