| Our ability to understand the world around us | | | | of disorders, such as autism, attention |
| relies on a central communication system that | | | | deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, |
| is visual and auditory. The brain has four | | | | oppositional defiant disorder, and mental |
| pillars that help us connect our sense organs | | | | retardation. Labels such as these are often |
| to the brain and result in our understanding | | | | diagnosed based on presenting symptoms. |
| and managing our everyday lives. These four | | | | |
| pillars are visual attention, visual memory, | | | | Visual thinkers can have as many as 50 |
| auditory attention, and auditory memory. | | | | presenting symptoms. If the cause of these |
| | | | symptoms is an overworking visual pathway, |
| Visual attention is a very powerful set of | | | | then the solution can be quite unique when |
| tools. These tools are used to connect our | | | | compared to other treatment ideas. |
| eyes to our working memory. Visual attention | | | | |
| opens the door to our brain's visual | | | | Help for the Maverick |
| processing pathway. We use it to open the | | | | |
| portal to the brain's visual processing | | | | One way to help Mavericks is by reducing |
| pathway and connect our eyes to our working | | | | auditory distraction and teaching them to pay |
| memory. Visual attention is also the first | | | | visual attention. Visual attention can be |
| step in forming a visual thought, which is | | | | tightly formatted by training key skills |
| one tool we use to make the world more | | | | sets. As you work through exercises that help |
| comprehensible for ourselves. | | | | train visual attention and self control you |
| | | | will help Maverick to successfully negotiate |
| Why visual children are misdiagnosed | | | | a verbal world. |
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| Instead of negotiating the world with verbal | | | | Pictures and puzzles are key elements to |
| reasoning, a visual person often negotiates | | | | working with Mavericks. You can use pictures |
| with patterns. We refer to these visual | | | | and reward to help them identify hidden |
| learners as "Mavericks." Mavericks often | | | | images or teach them to identify contrasting |
| think very rapidly - some say as much as | | | | images. Exercises should focus on training |
| 20,000 times faster than verbal thinkers. The | | | | visual attention skills and as such you |
| format of visual thought and the speed of | | | | should minimize your talking while training. |
| processing can become antagonistic to the | | | | You can find training ideas, podcasts and |
| speed of verbal communication. As a result, | | | | videos at the ebrainlabs website. |
| an erratic or unreliable system develops, | | | | |
| which can lead to behavior problems, anxiety, | | | | If you are the parent of a Maverick, there is |
| frustration, or withdrawal. Thus, visual | | | | help and hope for your child! |
| children are often diagnosed with a plethora | | | | |