Upside-Down Brilliance




		Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. ISBN: 1-932186-00-X $24.95 To Order, please visit the GDC Store!
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	Do you know things without being able to explain how or why? Do you solve problems in unusual ways? Do you think in pictures rather than in words? If so, you are not alone. One-third of the population thinks in images. You may be one or live with one. If you teach, it is absolutely certain that some of your students—probably the ones you aren’t reaching—are visual-spatial learners. Dr. Linda Silverman coined the term “visual-spatial learner” in 1981 to describe the unique gifts of people who think in images. They get the big picture because they see the world through artists’ eyes. They remember what they see, but forget what they hear. They’re disorganized, can’t spell and have no sense of time, but they have an infectious sense of humor, wild imaginations and can lose themselves completely in the joy of the moment. Visual-spatial brilliance created the computer and the Internet, the vivid displays at the Olympics, and the International Space Station. *Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner* is the blueprint for parenting, teaching and living with these delightfully different beings. It is also a manual for discovering and honoring your own hidden gifts.

		*Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.,is a licensed psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center, in Denver, Colorado. Over 5,000 children have been assessed at the Center since 1979. Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California. For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education. Her textbook, Counseling the Gifted and Talented* (Love: 1993), is the most popular text in this area; it has been adopted at more than 50 colleges and universities. Her latest book, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, was released November, 2002. Linda has been studying the assessment, psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and she has contributed over 300 articles and chapters in this field.
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	There are now several companion books to Upside-Down Brilliance currently available: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child If You Could See the Way I Think: A Handbook for Visual-Spatial Kids The Visual-Spatial Classroom: Differentiation Strategies that Engage Every Learner! And the mini-books ... Nothin' But the Facts! A Visual-Spatial Strategy for the Times Tables (A mini-book of a chapter originally published in If You Could See the Way I Think and The Visual-Spatial Classroom.) I Can't See It! A Visual-Spatial Approach to Language Arts (A mini-book of chapters originally published in If You Could See the Way I Think and The Visual-Spatial Classroom.)


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