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