A: Appears to day dream.        

1          2          3          4          5

B: Talks in phrases or leaves words out when talking.   

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C: Uses fingers to count.          

1          2          3          4          5

D: Draws pictures on the corners of homework papers or notebooks.

1          2          3          4          5

E: Has difficulty in following verbal directions.

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F: Displays fine motor problems (cutting, writing, colouring in or pasting) when asked to do a structured task. These same fine motor problems rarely appear when the child is doing something he/she has selected to do, i.e. wants and therefore likes to do.

1          2          3          4          5

G: Can remember places and events but has difficulty with recalling symbolic representations of those places or events e.g. names, letters, numbers.

1          2          3          4          5

H: Is on the move most of the time, i.e. very kinaesthetic (physical)

1          2          3          4          5

I: Likes to work part way out of his seat or even standing up.

1          2          3          4          5

J: May exaggerate when retelling an event in which he has been involved.

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K: Often has a messy desk or untidy room.

1          2          3          4          5

L: Has difficulty completing his work on time.

1          2          3          4          5

M: Likes to take things apart and try to put them together again (usually more successful at taking apart that re-assembling)

1          2          3          4          5

N: Displays impulsive behaviour.

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O: Tries to change the world to meet his own needs.

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P: Likes to touch, trip and poke etc, in a friendly way, when relating to others.

1          2          3          4          5

Q: Gets ‘lost’ going to the classroom (accidentally or otherwise).

1          2          3          4          5

R: Goes to the pencil sharpener often (or anywhere that takes him from his work).

1          2          3          4          5

S: May forget what he went to his room to do.

1          2          3          4          5

T: May be very good at athletics.

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U: Will often give the correct answer to a question but be unable to tell you where the answer came from (his subconscious).

V: Will often give responses that are unrelated to what is being discussed.

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W: May be an extrovert and a leader in class or at the other extreme, quiet, reserved and sensitive.

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X: May chew his tongue when working.

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COMMENTS
Not all Right Brain children and very few adults if any, will display all of the above characteristics, But if your child is scoring 4 or 5 on around half of them you can be sure your child is operating primarily out of the right side of his/her brain, lucky them.

I say lucky because whereas the more mechanical Left Brain can handle 40 (Forty) bits of information per second, the creative Right Brain can handle 1,250,000 yes, one and quarter million bits of information per second. Trouble is if it’s not organized it’s not much good to your child, certainly not in an academic sense.

The ideal for any human is Integrated Intelligence, that is left and right hemispheres (brains) working together. That comes about via Wholebrain Learning which is exactly what the Edinburgh Techniques is based on. Thus even 7 year old dyslexics spell psychiatrist forwards and backwards in their first 1 hour session with mum.

Does that boost confidence and raise self esteem? You can bet your last dollar on that being the case.

IS MY CHILD DYSLEXIC?
If your child has difficulty learning the time, tying his shoe laces, remembering days of the week, months of the year or the alphabet, is a poor speller or can’t remember tables It’s almost certain that he’s dyslexic.

He may also have difficulty with directions and knowing his right from his left. If you have a boy he’s either likely to be a sensitive, dreamy little angel or he may be a very physical boy, always on the move and getting up to mischief.

The sensitive boys have the greatest difficulties, they take everything to heart. Exams or even class spelling tests can be a nightmare for them. They may wet the bed up until they are 12 or 13. We have adapted a superb piece of psychotherapy to calm them down. A simple 15 minute story which you can download called the Magic Garden (or the Study Relaxer for the over 12s).

The Garden relaxes your child and boosts confidence and self esteem allowing him/her to learn at school. The more your child learns the more relaxed and confident it becomes. Suddenly you’ve gone from downward cycle to upward cycle.

Between the Alpha Test, the Modality screen and the information in the paragraph above you should now have a better chance of understanding your child’s difficulties. For a more in depth look at the 8 Intelligences we possess or how Stress affects the learning process go to the articles page of the site and download which ever articles you need. Everything is free on the articles page.

Should you need further information you can email me, Brian Hill, at brian@edinburghtechniques.co.uk  and if necessary we can talk over the phone no matter where you are in the world.