How is this a gift?
The GIFT of autism, ADHD and dyslexia is in their minds. Their gifts help them literally see and manipulate math, body movement, physics, music, etc inside the unlimited capacity of their mind. For them, information is processed all together like seeing a tree, put into 3-dimensional pictures and then analyzed in an instant with and against every previous experience with trees they have ever had. We call this ability visual spatial thinking or perceptual talent.
About 20-30% of our population has the ability to process information in this way.
The rest of the world are linear thinkers. They process information in sequential order, put it into categories and analyze it. Most educational systems are built on a foundation of linear processing.
Visual Spatial thinkers, while gifted, can have challenges working in the linear world, and especially in that of the educational system. Math, reading, writing and even planning all require the ability to see/do things in linear sequence. This is where Logos Learning Solutions comes in.
Although they do not often realize it, visual spatial thinkers have the incredible ability to use both their natural visual spatial thinking brain and their often needed linear brain. At Logos Learning Solutions we teach clients how to switch between these 2 distinct neurological pathways so that visual spatial thinkers can turn on their linear processing brain when they need to do linear tasks. Once our clients can switch back and forth, their challenges begin to diminish
Being able to control how they are using their brain is a tremendous start in overcoming challenges, but it is only the beginning. From the time each of us are born, we begin to experience the world around us uniquely. We learn as infants that we are our own person, separate from others. Through experience we learn the idea of change, the concepts of cause and effect and even how to feel the passage of time.
There are about 43 different concepts (building blocks) that each of us develop simply through our life experiences from infancy through early childhood. When these concepts are formed in accordance with reality they will give us the framework we use to do things like create our daily routines, dress appropriately for the weather, and get to our jobs on time as adults. But what happens if those concepts are not experienced correctly in childhood?
It happens because when the building block was forming the child’s mind was deep within the creative visual spatial thinking part of their brain and thus he/she was not fully aware of the reality around them. We call this altered reality disorientation. When this happened the building block that was forming was not created in accordance with reality. It was created but the information used to create it was not complete and thus, as the child grows, ideas such as organization, written communication and time management may become difficult or even impossible for them to grasp. The more building blocks that are incompletely formed in early childhood the greater the number of challenges the visual spatial thinker will face as they grow up.
Learning specialists at Logos Learning Solutions are trained in guiding visual spatial thinkers through this process, helping them to use and see their immense gifts while simultaneously overcoming the obstacles they have faced. The process is so natural that the learner seldom realizes that so much has changed within them. Challenges simply seem to disappear as if they had never existed, because the things that caused those challenges have been removed.
An Analogy for Better Understanding
Imagine the brain is like a band of highly trained professional musicians with each thought, feeling and action being a different instrument in that band. We know that each instrument playing together in tune and harmony with one another produces a sound that is pleasing to our ears. But sometimes all of the parts of our brain are NOT working together and creating harmony because they don’t have the tools they need to do so.
When you heard those musicians trying to play together and not succeeding in what they were meant to do, it would be a very natural reaction to want to “fix the problem.” You might think to yourself that the drummer needs to be taught to play more quietly as his outbursts are disruptive to your ability to hear the other instruments, The flutist needs to be taught to engage with the other instruments in the proper way and time, and the trumpet player needs to have the basic concept of musical beat explained more simply so he can grasp the concept of rhythm. This is how many traditional autism/ADHD/dyslexia programs approach these challenges.
But what if instead of trying to “fix the problems” you gave the drummer tools to hear, and the trumpet player the sheet music so he could play, and the flutist light to see? If each musician had the tools he or she needed to play their instrument they would play it well. Remember they are highly trained professional musicians. They are not broken or deficient, they simply need the right tools to perform at their greatest potential.
And that is exactly what Logos Learning solutions is all about. As a licensed learning specialist we offer a correction to the cause of your challenges, rather than simply tools for managing behaviors and symptoms associated with Autism, ADHD, dyslexia+, SPD and other learning differences.
About us
Logos Learning Solutions exists to connect people who experience symptoms of Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD and other learning differences with their gifts in order to resolve their challenges. This transformative process makes learning reading, writing, math and executive functioning skills easier by showing clients how to work with their brains in the way they were designed to work.