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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 21:15:55 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I am interested to find out whether ADHD-ers have a learning style in common.
Please only take part in the poll if you have an ADHD diagnosis.
Thanks ;D
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Post by annie on Jan 25, 2012 22:58:08 GMT
Hi
Glad you've joined the forum.
Think you might have to give a bit more explanation as to why you want to know this information.
annie
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2012 2:43:03 GMT
Thanks Annie for your participation and feedback. I am a MSc Person Centred Trainee Psychotherapist, currently at diploma level. I am also a qualified secondary school teacher (of 15+ years) and am retraining after becoming disillusioned with the education system, witnessing children being let down and blamed for their difficulties in school. At the moment I am considering various research areas for part of my course and before fully deciding what to focus on I want to do some background research regarding ADHD and learning styles, i.e. is there a common learning style? The outcome of this background research would be to see whether it is possible to formulate and test a hypothesis regarding ways of working therapeutically with ADHD diagnosed clients. Also, i wasn't sure if it was allowed to post links to other sites, but have noticed that someone else has. You can find the questionnaire at .... www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=youngerI hope that I have given you enough information to show that I have good intentions
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2012 9:59:52 GMT
I'm pretty self aware - but I don't have a clue about my learning method.
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Post by mccutcheon on Jan 26, 2012 12:59:32 GMT
kinesthetic and writing combined. reading alone doesn't work. When I studied for my diploma exam (something between Bachelor's and Master's degree here in Austria) my desk was covered in pages and pages of handwritten stuff. Some I never looked at again, because writing it down lodged it in my brain. And I love mindmaps. huge fucking mindmaps to visualise correlation. edit: But I definitely learn best by doing and not by learning. It's just not always an option (school, uni)
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Post by twix on Jan 26, 2012 14:32:58 GMT
I am very kinesthetic with a bit visual. My experience as a teacher suggests that this is fairly typical for adhd. I too am fed up of the system. But anyhow....
If you want I can let you know about some of the work I have done in this area, send me a pm
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Post by twix on Jan 26, 2012 14:34:38 GMT
Also have a look at auditory processing disorder, I suspect that that is often comormid and not picked up and another reason why predominantly auditory teaching styles fail adhd kids.
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Post by boo on Jan 26, 2012 22:43:56 GMT
I am very kinesthetic with a bit visual. ditto
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Post by boo on Jan 26, 2012 22:57:53 GMT
heya the vote only allows one choice, but if you have 2 quite dominant styles eg predominantly kinesthetic but with a fair dollop of visual, how will you know what the combination is for people? surely if there are 2 or more dominant styles, wont you still need to know what they are? sorry if i am being a bit dim, (or pedantic......lol) good luck with this btw, when is the poll closing? (I cast my vote btw, hope i chose the right option )
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2012 0:55:25 GMT
I tried a couple of different questionnaires online and they were consistent in saying I learn in loads of different ways, except from reading....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2012 1:44:26 GMT
Tried the adult VARK
Your scores were:
Visual: 4 Aural: 4 Read/Write: 4 Kinesthetic: 6 You can find more information about your learning preferences in our downloadable book:
How Do I Learn Best? a student's guide to improved learning
More Information...
You have a mild Kinesthetic learning preference.
Use the following helpsheets for study strategies that apply to your learning preference:
kinesthetic
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Post by twix on Jan 27, 2012 9:05:34 GMT
Does anyone else find colour coding helpful?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2012 2:40:00 GMT
Not hugely. Told someone yesterday that they'd used too much and I had no idea what their system was telling me.
It was a pretty dreadful diagram, mind you. I counted seventeen blobs, in eight colours...
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Post by boo on Jan 28, 2012 11:42:05 GMT
Does anyone else find colour coding helpful? not for learning, although if i was trying to understand a key concept that could be helped by categorisation, i would then, if you get what i mean I find it very difficult to learn without understanding first, cant learn parrot fashion, wont happen, my brain simply refuses to co-operate I use colour coding alot when working with large amounts of data, but then again i imagine most folk do the same for that
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2012 16:45:13 GMT
Yes, I've never been able to 'learn' stuff on purpose - times tables, verb declensions...bloody stopping distances! I acquire stuff, rather than committing it to memory.
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Post by mccutcheon on Jan 28, 2012 18:02:45 GMT
twix, I luuuurve colors! No study session without a gazillion of pens and pencils strewn about the table
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Post by christvswarhol on Feb 13, 2012 0:27:39 GMT
I know this is a locked poll, but i was worried i had answered wrong... ;D
The VARK Questionnaire Results
Your scores were:
Visual: 10 Aural: 9 Read/Write: 12 Kinesthetic: 12
You have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference.
Use the following helpsheets for study strategies that apply to your learning preferences:
multimodal visual aural read-write kinesthetic
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