Right-Brained Children in a Left Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child

Friday, April 21, 2006
With Jeffrey Freed, M.A.T.

Location:

Harraseeket Inn 162 Main Street Freeport, Maine

Program Description: This workshop will begin with an overview addressing the reasons we are seeing so many visual learners, learning disabilities, and other right hemisphere conditions among school age children. The factors causing this swing to the right hemisphere in learning styles will clearly be identified and explained. The program will also focus on an explanation of dyslexia and how it is often mistaken for a form of Attention Deficit Disorder, that is, children with strong visual learning styles and hypersensitivities. The most important part of the presentation will consist of demonstrating specific hands-on techniques, which will enable each participant to better successfully teach math, reading, writing, spelling, and auditory sequencing and processing skills. It is the speaker's belief that visual learners, including those students with ADD and other language based learning differences, can learn the basics successfully, if they are taught in fashion congruent with their processing styles.

About the Speaker: Jeffrey Freed, MAT, is an educational therapist and consultant who has worked with almost 1500 attention deficit disorder (ADD) and gifted children to help them turn their lives around and reach their full potential. Children, parents, teachers, pediatricians, psychologists and education specialists nationwide embrace his effective learning techniques, casual manner, positive approach and visual thinking. Jeffrey Freed attributes his success with his students to a technique he developed and described in his book, "Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World." After working with ADD and gifted children for more than a decade, he made a simple, yet revolutionary discovery: Most gifted and virtually all children with ADD share the same learning style. Freed suggests that these right-brained children are "highly visual, non sequential processors who learn by remembering the way things look and by taking words and turning them into mental pictures." In addition to teaching children, Freed is a nationally known speaker on ADD issues. He delivers in-service programs to educators on the nuances of effectively teaching right-brained and ADD learners. He has been interviewed by national print publications and has also been a regular guest on television and radio talk shows on ADD and at meetings for parents of ADD and gifted children.

Learning objectives:

• Each individual attending this workshop will leave with a concrete set of skills which will make teaching visual learners at home or in the classroom, far easier.
• Participants will also learn how to quickly identify the visual learner, and be abel to determine what learning style they possess.
• Participants will also be able to identify dyslexia and learn how to successfully treat this growing educational phenomenon.
• Participants will be able to discriminate between Attention Deficit Disorder from misdiagnosed ADD.