Is Your Child 2-D or 3-D?

When I came across this learning pattern that you will read about today, I have been so amazed to see my children work and create in their realm of dimension.  My son has a 2-D and a 3-D learning pattern and my daughter is all 3-D.  My son picked up language, reading, and writing at an early age, yet, at the same time is very creative with his projects and out of the box thinking.  He would rather make a video or act out a play than write a report.  My daughter is all about creating something special and unique for her assignments.  She had a little more difficulty with language, reading & writing because of her language processing disorder.  But, with wonderful speech/language therapy, she is functioning quite well in her first year in high school making A's and B's.
So, what is Three-Dimensional or Two-Dimensional and why does this Learning Pattern matter?...

Research from neurology tells us that many people with great potential or power in the three-dimensional sphere have parallel difficulty with two-dimensional tasks.  The 3-D spheres include science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, architecture, drama, athletics, and politics, not to metion construction and mechanics.  The 2-D realm uses the abstractions of words and printed symbols with no intrinsic meaning of their own.  There is no logic that says a squiggle like s should make the sound /s/. 

When they start school, children confront symbols in every corner of the classroom: letters, whole words, numerals, process signs for arithmetic.  The child with strong two-dimensional capacities absorbs them easily, learning from print.  Without the kind of appropriate training we will see in the section on multisensory learning, the three-dimensional learner, frequently highly intelligent, is confused or lost.

The ratio of children's 3-D/2-D power influences the success or failure of their early school years, distinctly coloring their view of themselves as learners, whic in their own interpretation, determines whether they are worthy or unworthy--loveable or despicable--human beings.  children judge themselves harshly, being more forgiving of their puppies than they are of themselves.

Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns, Priscilla Vail

So, as parents and teachers, if you can determine your child's/student's 2-D/3-D learning patterns, you could help lead them toward learning in the best way for them to be successful.  How fulfilling would that be?!  As a parent, I love knowing that if I know my child's learning pattern I can help build up their confidence and provide them with a balanced foundation entering into the school environment.  Empowering.