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What are my students' strengths?
Although students with learning disabilities process information differently from the way most people do, they are often of average or above average intelligence.
Many students with learning disabilities are:
- talented in creative and visual spatial thinking
- able to see patterns in seemingly unrelated data
- endowed with tremendous energy and drive
- able to focus on a task for long periods of time.
Given the amount of information overload most people are experiencing, individuals with the ability to visualise scientific concepts and manipulate complex three-dimensional information in a range of graphic displays may well become more useful that those with linear skills in words or numbers.
Consequently, such individuals can add value to any teaching or learning situation because of their unique ways of processing information.
They could be the leaders of the future, like those who have faced similar challenges.
Here are just a few:
- Albert Einstein (physicist)
- Richard Branson (businessman)
- Richard Rogers (architect)
- Robyn Williams (actor)
- Michael Faraday (scientist)
- Winston Churchill (politician)
- Kerry Packer (businessman)
- Eddie Izzard (comedian).
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