I tend to side with lucounu on this one. My DD fits the VSL description perfectly. Teaching her spelling using a method described on one of the various Silverman/VSL sites had a profound effect on her spelling, and also possibly on her auditory working memory (because she seems to have learned to map her auditory input to her far stronger visual memory). So I get that the description can fit and some of the techniques can be extremely useful. But the truth of my daughter is that she has ADD, CAPD and dyslexia and most likely Aspergers. To my mind describing gifted children with quirks as "Visual Spatial Learners" and not looking further is doing them a disservice. It might sound nicer, but actually knowing exactly how one's child is wired differently is far more useful than saying "Oh she's a visual spatial learner..."
