Summary: My guest this week is Dr. Richard Selznick of Shut Down Learner. He is a psychologist, nationally certified school psychologist and author of The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child. Our topic today is the “high spatial learner”, children who thrive with visual-spatial learning (the so called “Lego kid”) but who may struggle with learning in a traditional classroom setting. Within the first few pages of the book, I recognized my 8 year old son, who can build anything and pick out songs by ear on the piano, but who has difficulty reading and following instructions. If you have a child with this learning style, the book will help you appreciate your child’s unique strengths and point you to resources to assist them so they don’t become discouraged. Follow Dr. Selznick on Twitter!
