Upside-Down Brilliance:
The Visual-Spatial Learner
by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.

ISBN: 1-932186-00-X

Copies of Upside-Down Brilliance are available from Helen Dudeney at Australian Gifted Support.

Do you know things without being able
to explain how or why?
Do you solve problems in unusual ways?
Do you think in pictures rather than in words?

If so, you are not alone. One-third of the population thinks in images. You may be one or live with one. If you teach, it is absolutely certain that some of your students—probably the ones you aren’t reaching—are visual-spatial learners.

Dr. Linda Silverman coined the term “visual-spatial learner” in 1981 to describe the unique gifts of people who think in images. They get the big picture because they see the world through artists’ eyes.

They remember what they see, but forget what they hear.
They’re disorganized, can’t spell and have no sense of time,
but they have an infectious sense of humor, wild imaginations and can lose themselves completely in the joy of the moment. Visual-spatial brilliance created the computer and the Internet, the vivid displays at the Olympics, and the International Space Station.

Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner is the blueprint for parenting, teaching and living with these delightfully different beings. It is also a manual for discovering and honoring your own hidden gifts.

Click here to read the review of Upside Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner written by Linda Neumann, for The 2e reading guide: Essential books for understanding twice-exceptional children. Glen Ellyn, IL: Glen Ellyn Media, 2009, pp. 18-19.