Visual-spatial learning style, or visual-spatial intelligence, refers to a person’s ability to perceive, analyze, and understand visual information in the world around them. Essentially, they can picture concepts with their mind’s eye.

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If a child is superior in verbal reasoning, but below average in visual spatial skills, the full scale number looks average….WISC-V Structure.

Activities that boost spatial reasoning

1. Use spatial language in everyday interactions.
2. Teach using gestures (and encourage kids to gesture)
3. Teach visualization.
4. Play the matching game.
5. Build structures in storytelling context.
6. Do a TANGRAM and non-jigsaw spatial puzzles.
7. Exposure to map reading.
8. Read spatially challenging books.

Spatial ability, defined by a capacity for mentally generating, rotating, and transforming visual images, is one of the three specific cognitive abilities most important for developing expertise in learning and work settings.

By 18 months, a toddler has a basic understanding of spatial concepts, but spatial awareness begins to develop the day they’re born. First, they learn that they have a body and their body has different parts (building their sensory system).

Spatial awareness is knowing where your body is in space in relation to objects or other people. To have good spatial awareness you also need to understand and respond to a change in position from these objects. This is a complex skill that children develop from an early age.

Ideas for Proprioceptive Activities

1. Weightbearing activities e.g. crawling, push-ups.
2. Resistance activities e.g. pushing/pulling.
3. Heavy lifting e.g. carrying books.
4. Cardiovascular activities e.g.running, jumping on a trampoline.
5. Oral activities e.g. chewing, blowing bubbles.
6. Deep pressure e.g. tight hugs.

Body awareness is how conscious and connected you are to your own body. It’s also known as kinesthesia, or the awareness of the position and movement of body parts in relation to muscles and joints.

What is Body Awareness? Being aware of your own body basically means having a good understanding and feeling of your own body. body awareness: a dance element that comprises focus on body shapes, body base, body part, locomotor, and non-locomotor movements.

Proprioception is the awareness of the body in space. It is the use of joint position sense and joint motion sense to respond to stresses placed upon the body by alteration of posture and movement.

3 Ways to Become More Aware of Your Body

1. Be Aware of Your Breathing. When life is pulling you out of rhythm and chaos is in control, slow down the distracting thoughts and stress through being aware of your breathing.
2. Be Aware of Your Senses. Your body has five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
3. Be Aware of Your Environment.

Body awareness can help improve emotions too. Most emotions are felt in the body as well as the mind. The physical aspects of our emotions often begin before we even register the feelings. By improving body awareness, it becomes easier to identify and understand emotions based on small changes in the body.

Through your sense of kinesthesis, you can tell where different parts of your body are located even if your eyes are closed or you are standing in a dark room. For example, when you are riding a bicycle, receptors in your arms and legs send information to the brain about the position and movement of your limbs.

Using magnetoencephalography we confirmed that the beginning of kinesthetic sensations was related to the activation of the Posterior Parietal cortex as well as of the Primary Motor cortex [21].