How to improve organization at home and school. If someone asks me about my agenda for the day, I immediately look up and see my day planned in my mind’s eye. Visualization is an essential key for organizing your day, a room or schoolwork. Children or teens that don’t visualize don’t have a ‘template’ for organization as they don’t have a way to problem solve. Picturing is an important aspect even in regard to something as simple as organizing a dresser. One can’t put clothing in a dresser without knowing what drawer to place each type of clothing item. When I organize a dresser I first visualize each drawer and then what will be placed in that drawer.  Children that don’t visualize can feel completely lost with these types of tasks. When children are cleaning their room it is best to have them focus on one area at a time, and picture...

Finally, the Solution for Strong Reading Comprehension Skills! I would be unable to count each time I have heard that stated by a child or teen in our clinic. However, when I taught them how to visualize while they read, they would declare just as adamantly that reading was now “fun’ for them. I often term visualization skills as the key to academic success – and the same is true for reading comprehension. The brain is intended to convert what is heard or read into pictures in the mind’s eye. Reading IS boring when we only read the words. We have no way of connecting to or gaining meaning from the written word. Conversely, how enjoyable it becomes when we are able to convert the words into a movie in our imagination. I have never heard a child say that he or she did not like watching movies, and the same...