Determining a child's favored way of learning is a first step to stimulating and optimizing learning ability. Under the registered trademark, Helping Children Grow , Lauren Bradway, Ph.D . provides clinical services to children and trains parents and teachers to maximize children's learning ability . As a speech pathologist, she evaluates children who have language, learning and reading disabilities. She then develops and carries out specialized therapy programs for them. As a consultant, Dr. Bradway shows parents and teachers how to determine children's learning style and how to plan individualized programs for them as early as the 1st year of life.
Newborns enter a world filled with sights, sounds and sensations.
These auditory, visual and tactile stimuli are received by highly specialized receptors in a baby's ears, eyes, and skin. A child's preference for a particular type of stimulation tends to be either identical to that of one parent or a blend of both. In terms of learning style , a child may seem like a close relative, such as an uncle or grandparent. From the time they are in the crib, Listeners are attuned to sounds and words. They talk early, have large vocabularies, and learn to read with ease.