Understanding Your Kids’
Learning Styles
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D.
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s your kids head back to school after the winter break, one
of your top priorities, as a parent, is to help them with their
homework. But how do you best do that? To be sure they
truly understand the material, it’s useful to know how they learn.
Researchers have discovered that there are four major learning
styles: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. Below are
brief descriptions of each learning style and how you can tailor your
homework help.
Visual Learners
How They Learn: Visual learners process new information by seeing
it. A sign that your kids might be visual learners is that from a young
age they lingered over illustrations in books and other visual stimuli.
Another sign is that they love to draw or paint. At school, visual
learners often doodle when they listen to the teacher. It helps them
better understand and remember the material.
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