subject: Students With Learning Disabilities - Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style [print this page] Students With Learning Disabilities - Benefits of Knowing Your Learning Style
Here are the characteristics of each learning style. Read the traits in each list and try to determine your style(s).
AUDITORY
- Enjoys reading aloud
- Good at foreign languages
- Likes to talk
- Follows directions well
- Does well in a study group
- Enjoys music
- Notices sound effects in movies
- Good at explaining things
VISUAL
- Needs a quiet area to study
- Better at remembering faces than names
- Good spellers
- Remembers colors
- Finds pictures and charts helpful
- Learns from movies
KINESTHETIC or HAPTIC
- Fidgets - can't stay still for long
- Likes to act things out
- Learns from doing activities
- Able to concentrate with music on
- Enjoys working/building with hands
- Impatient in lectures
- Athletic
Now, to confirm your prediction, do an online learning styles inventory, preferably on a college's website.
Along with your results, you will receive helpful study suggestions that suit your style(s) to a tee. Print them out and be sure to use them the next time you're preparing for an exam. Now, compare those test results to previous ones. Did you improve? If so, it worked! Just continue to study the same way. If your results were no better, go back and take the inventory again. It is possible that you answered some questions inaccurately.
Once you get a true portrayal of the way you learn, you should find studying more productive and engaging. You should also see an improvement in your test scores!
Joan M. Azarva, Ms.ED, an expert College Learning Specialist, parent of a successful adult son with LD/ADD, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education has experience that spans three+ decades with students of all ages. In 1993, however, due to the well-documented low postsecondary success rate of students with learning disabilities, Joan decided to focus exclusively on the critical period of high school-to-college transition.
From her professional and personal experiences, Joan learned that not only can proactive measures often fend off failure, they can also produce extremely desirable outcomes. If you are the parent of a high school student with learning differences, sign up for Joan's listserv and receive a valuableFREE 55-page E-Book, Interactive Academic Websites, by going to http://www.ConquerCollegewithLD.com.
