Spatial Disorientation... hmmm. Now what's this? And how does it affect my child?

In essence... it most often results in a child with reading and writing problems.

OK, OK... I hear you asking, "How will I really notice if my child suffers from this?"

Let me begin.

Your child may be struggling to spell. And you may see letter orders often mixed up, reversed and reading from right-to-left. You may also be seeing things like "mane" instead of "name", confusion of b/d, u/n, etc.

It can also cause putting words in strange orders when constructing sentences.

Writing and remembering the correct order of numbers can also be the cause of SO. You'll often see something like "142" instead of the correct "412".

By now you're probably asking...

"What Can I Do To Beat It?"

Got a minute? Good! Here's the first easy thing I'll do.

To beat the effects of spatial disorientation you must ensure your child really knows and understands the meaning of position names such as under, over, back and front.

Babies who never crawled, are often prone to spatial disorientation. Words like under, over, front and back are seldom used when talking to them. As a result they're often unaware of these basic positions.

Knowing and understanding basic positions are the vital first steps before spatial disorientation can be beaten. And before a child's reading problems can be beaten.

"So... what's the next step?"

Give your child easy instructions like:

"put your cup on (or under) the table"

"throw the paper in the basket", and...

"place the shoe behind you"

This is a very easy and fun way to teach children the concept of positions around them.

"Is there anything else I can do to conquer spatial disorientation?"

Well, yes...

Get Educational Building Blocks

Then...

Create a game by giving instruction such as...

"put a red block in front of the blue one"

"place the yellow block behind the red one"

"put the green block left of the yellow one"

And if you really want to nail down spatial disorientation...

Take a picture from any old magazine. Once again make a game out of instructing your child to indicate positions relative to any object in the picture.

Many children don't find this easy. So, don't despair. Keep on trying.

That's it... four easy steps you can immediately take to start beating spatial disorientation and curing your child's reading problems.

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