[SENco-forum] Mind's Ear

I was interested to read the article on Mind's Ear in the APDUK newsletter
http://www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm  and click on Newsletter 6.

There is some knowledge of Mind's Eye the Ron Davies way for some with
dyslexia to harness their visual skills ( if they have them) to learn.  I
read his book and had to restrain myself from throwing it out the window.
As it turns out I have practically zero visual skills. I am a kinaesthetic
learner who gets fleeting snapshot visuals that disappear as quickly as they
came.    Get someone to give you a noun - i.e. 'cat'.  Did you see anything.
Me neither!  I get a quick dictionary run down in my mind - feline four legs
furry etc

 Imagine my surprise to find my daughter runs real time videos in her mind.
She can play stop replay etc things that have happened or things that she
imagines.  Real Mind's eye control - Scary!

This article discusses the auditory version - and what happens if you have
not acquired the skill -a child who always reads out loud because they can't
do it in their head.  They think a person must be crazy if their hear voices
in their head!

As the auditory version of my daughter I can run music tracks and vary the
artist as long as I have heard the different versions. I can sing it myself
perfectly in my head.  I can also sing well out loud but cannot easily swap
from one to another as what is going on in my head may not be in a key that
I can sing in.  I cannot imagine not 'hearing' in my head, just as my
daughter cannot imagine that I cannot 'see' in my head.

The author is pondering whether it is only APD people who cannot 'hear'
inside there own heads.  Any ideas?   Interesting to think about for SENco's
& forum members as we are likely to have come across these students and
never known it or been puzzled why they can't visualize or read in their
heads like we do.

Sharon Tringham

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