Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Visible Pondering 101_142: Are we dropping our youngsters’s presents?


College is an auditory-sequential playground. Auditory-sequential learners are good listeners, study in a step-by-step style, are well timed, and properly organized (Silverman, 2009); they study the way in which academics educate, and they’re extra prone to be counted amongst excessive achievers (Silverman, 2002).

Nonetheless, we enter the world as visible thinkers, and being in an auditory-sequential setting can restrict our capability to utilise our visible presents, similar to creativity, curiosity, problem-solving abilities, instinct, innovation and lots of extra.

After many years of teaching college students, Empowering Studying Practitioners know exactly the best way to allow visible thinkers to develop studying, spelling, handwriting, comprehension, and numeracy abilities, scaffolding onto their visible strengths. These are easy abilities that assist college students study and develop their visible superpowers for a lot of subjects all through their lives.

Throughout August Olive Hickmott, founding father of Empowering Studying, is providing you 1-1 Neurodiverse Teaching classes for youngsters or adults, at 25% low cost. Simply ebook a time right here.

Silverman PhD, Linda. Giftedness 101 (Psych 101) (p. 32). Springer Publishing Firm. Kindle Version.

Literacy from the within out: Visualising Phrases – A lacking ability for Literacy. Watch my YouTube video right here for a 5-minute demonstration. https://youtu.be/b8eVJDjRVPg?si=qB9a0RptSV3Njj2_


[i] 25 years of teaching neurodiverse minds at http://www.empoweringlearning.co.uk

So what’s going on inside your thoughts, or your youngster’s thoughts? How do you discover their strengths for creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, and a lot extra? Come be a part of our widespread free session and uncover extra of your hidden abilities in “Neurodiverse Strengths“. (hyperlinks and dates under). No person must be fastened we simply want the world round us to know extra.

If in case you have any questions, your subsequent steps might help you study extra:

  • Give me a free name and learn the way to make literacy simpler on your youngster/pupil: +44-7970-854388
  • Be a part of one of many August intensive teaching classes for youngsters and fogeys: Ebook right here.
  • Enroll under for the month-to-month e-newsletter that offers you all of the dates of occasions.
  • Be a part of a free group teaching session in July
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Empowering Studying practitioners additionally coach youngsters and adults, with or with out a prognosis, to learn the way to make literacy, maths, and ADHD simpler by constructing on their visible strengths. We educate privately and in faculties. We even have one practitioner who’s working workshops for grandparents to know their ADHD youngsters.

  • For literacy we use an strategy that permits college students to activate the a part of the visible mind that retains letters and phrases for fluency, so that they don’t must get caught in decoding for ever. This can be a very easy step for inventive visible thinkers. College students will nonetheless use phonics for brand spanking new phrases, however they’ll first have constructed up an enormous vocabulary of phrases visually to allow good literacy. We additionally use their visible reminiscence for comprehension and enhancing handwriting.
  • For ADHD we use 5 easy steps to manage psychological photographs, audio chatter and enhance focus.

Listed here are the workshop dates for the subsequent few weeks of 2025. Do join and be a part of our group:

Thursday seventeenth July at 8pm UK time: Straightforward Literacy for enhancing Dyslexia: Be taught the important ability of visualising phrases for lowered nervousness, Dyslexia and creating fluent spelling and studying. Click on right here to ebook free of charge

Wed thirtieth July at 8pm UK time: Thriving with ADHD: Many tricks to find out about enhancing ADHD on your youngster and also you with out medicine.  Click on right here to ebook free of charge

Wednesday twenty third July at 8pm Assist your Neurodiverse Youngster: A brand new class to assist mother and father and educating workers to help neurodiverse youngsters. Discover a few of the key subjects that may actually make a distinction shortly. Click on right here to ebook free of charge

Monday 14th July at 8pm UK time Neurodiverse Strengths and Challenges – there are numerous neurodivergent strengths which are properly value exploring to offer you totally different views on neurodiversity. Click on right here to ebook free of charge

Monday twenty second July at 8pm UK time Serving to change early indicators of Dyslexia in Early 12 months (EYFS). Come and be a part of this thrilling new challenge: this suggestions that may minimise Dyslexia and even keep away from it. Click on right here to ebook free of charge

Monday twenty eighth July at 8pm UK time Maths. Studying the best way to visualise numbers is a superb asset for arithmetic, come and study the methods. Chick right here to ebook free of charge.

Not out there till September 2025 

Recuperate your vitality, together with enhancing respiratory and sleep – For individuals who are missing vitality, feeling overwhelmed and would really like some abilities to enhance their vitality banks. Click on right here to ebook

Exploring Psychological Photos, for individuals who really feel they don’t seem to be as inventive as they was once. Come and discover your individual psychological photographs with us. Click on right here to ebook free of charge

We run common webinars to cowl these important abilities.

To discover extra of the guidelines and methods we’ve got for neurodivergent youngsters and adults, do click on right here. There’s even a free introductory video there. You’ll profit from all of the expertise we’ve got gained during the last 25 years working with neurodiverse college students.

My identify is Olive Hickmott, I’m a well being and studying coach, specializing in working with neurodivergent college students. I might be happy to help you in any means I can.
You’re welcome to contact me olive@empoweringlearning.co.uk
Right here you can find my studying platform for a few of my coaching programmes and free dwell webinars  www.visualkids.co.uk
You will see different helpful data and Practitioner Coaching at http://www.empoweringlearning.co.uk
Right here is my YouTube channel for extra free assets: https://www.youtube.com/c/OliveHickmott
My newest books are:
The Elephants within the Classroom: utilizing each pupil’s pure energy of Psychological Imagery to boost studying: Neurodiversity via the lens of psychological Imagery.
Bridges to Success – The right way to rework Studying Difficulties

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I’m a Forensic Studying coach, exhibiting folks how they will enhance their very own studying and alter their well being. Working with inventive neurodivergent college students is a pleasure, as they study new abilities to beat a lot of their studying challenges.

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