Comments on: Requisite Weekend Transformation? How Are You Framing Your Organizational Issues?

By: Michelle Malay Carter

Michelle Malay Carter — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:48:49 +0000

Hi Jacqueline,

Thank you for your comment and your encouragement. My son is continuing to find ways to use his way of learning to meet his school requirments.

Regards,

Michelle

By: Jacqueline Ayad

Jacqueline Ayad — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:34:10 +0000

A wonderful article, Michelle! I was classified as “cross-dominant” many years ago. Similar names include “mixed lateral” and “brain balanced”. Like your son I had some difficulty spelling and had to “photograph” the words on a page within my mind’s eye. It is the captured photo images I drew forth whenever I needed to write. Even though now I can do both, I prefer to think in pictures, more than to think in words/language. It’s what I call “shorthand” thinking as a picture often IS worth a thousand words!

The more your son “crosses back and forth” between the left and right hemispheres, the hoped for integration WILL take place. What at first appeared mis-fortunate, has proven to be one of my greatest assets in life – the ability to be equally creative or analytical! Take heart as you are moving in all the right directions with your son!

By: Michelle Malay Carter

Michelle Malay Carter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:55:07 +0000

Hi Will,

Yes, we’ve been doing some brain integration exercises and stretches and we are seeing some progress as well.

We made it through 4th Grade and we are encouraged.

Michelle

By: Will Pearce

Will Pearce — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:33:52 +0000

I’m glad to hear that the new approach is working!

By: Michelle Malay Carter

Michelle Malay Carter — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:37:28 +0000

Hi Lindsey,

Thanks for the encouragement and the pointers.

I’ve found a gentleman in California who specializes in Right Brain math (http://www.rightbrainmath.com/) and I am currently looking for a grant to fund him to visit my children’s school and facilitate a day of teacher training in right brain math techniques.

Regards,

Michelle

By: Lindsey Fallow

Lindsey Fallow — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:15:39 +0000

What a great article. And so right. I love that some publishers (O’Reilly for example) are starting to ‘get’ that it’s not helpful to force people to try to bend their brains into submission. Right brain learning and limbic system learning is so powerful.

You might be interested in the studies that were done on Bostonians and Amazonian indians, which show that right-brain geometry is universal, where left-brain calculation and logic is a mutation which only a percentage of the population possess.

My 13-year-old stepson has a kind of dyslexia which sounds very much like what your son experiences. In addition he has problems with his working memory, which make the techniques his maths teachers drill into him pretty much useless. We’re trying to find ways to let his right brain do more of the work for him.

My best friend, who I live and work with, has Tourettes and ASD. We read through her old school reports a few days ago and it was amazing the contrast between teachers who recognised her (undiagnosed) difference as a potential which could be unlocked and those who simply chastised her for not responding to their rigid techniques.

Isn’t it odd that businesses find it so difficult to grasp the concept of allowing people to achieve their potential?