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Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties

A Activity 3: Brain hemispheres

There are several quick tests you can do to discover if you are a
right-brained or left-brained person.

Use one of the links below to take a test, then write down your
thoughts on the result. Are you left-brained, right-brained or a
mixture? What are your key attributes?

https://www.arealme.com/left-right-brain/en
http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/

Some of the positive aspects of dyslexia and DCD, for example, include being:

• Creative

• Imaginative

• Innovative

• Intuitive

• Perceptive

• Able to see the whole picture

• Determined and persistent

• A lateral thinker

• A visual thinker

• Fast learning with regard to practical skills.

Key Fact

People with SpLDs tend to be ‘right-brain’ thinkers and many have
creative and imaginative skills and attributes.

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