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The sessions gives insight and help into what is going on for poor visualizers, or at the other extreme super-visualizers whose brains are so active they are zooming off in all directions and can’t stay still long enough to focus on any one task.Īlthough Olive has a maths degree she believes she would have been diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, due to her bad spelling and hatred of reading. Olive Hickmott has been running a schools programme in inner London for teachers and children called The Keys to Successful Learning through Mental Imagery. The financial cost to society because of lack of understanding of what is going on in people’s mental maps and therefore inability to help them overcome their difficulties is high. Within the prison population 50% of those incarcerated have difficulty reading and 80% have difficulty spelling and writing.
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In the UK 20 per cent of the population have literacy and numeracy challenges. Statistically poor visualizers do not do well if reading and writing is a marker of success. About half the population do this so automatically that they don’t realize they are doing it the other half don’t know what you are talking about. And if you ask them to spell a complicated word they will just look up and spell it. dog, cat, chair in their ‘mind’s eye’ they normally look up to see them.
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Good spellers will tell you that they can see words, i.e. Parents and teachers may be oblivious to the problem or unable to help because they assume that everyone else sees their mental pictures in the same way as their own. They may lack the skill to create mental images of words and get stuck at this point continually, which can leave them feeling stressed, frustrated and ashamed. These pathways become wider and deeper the more they are used.Ĭhildren who have aphantasia, (find it impossible to visualize a scene in their mind’s eye) or are poor visualizers are disadvantaged if they cannot read or spell. as you learn new things, new neural pathways are formed “The aim of NLP is to create the richest map possible for people, by enriching the choices that they perceive as available to them in the world.