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You might also be interested in reading up on Visual Spatial learners, being you and hubby are engineers. http://www.visualspatial.org/ This was extremely helpful to us.

I am not an engineer; I was one of those underachievers...I prefer late bloomer. I went back to school about 4 times after I graduated, the last time for engineering; but I had to stop due to an neck, back, hip injury where I couldn't sit, let alone stand back then. It's hard doing Calc equations that way. DS is definitely a VS learner. Thank you!

Can you (or anyone) recommend one of these from the listfron the website:

Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner (Denver: DeLeon Publishing, 2002), Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child (Denver: DeLeon Publishing, 2004), If You Could See the Way I Think: A Handbook for Visual-Spatial Kids (Denver: Visual-Spatial Resource, 2005) and, our newest release, The Visual-Spatial Classroom: Differentiation Strategies that Engage Every Learner (Denver: Visual-Spatial Resource, 2006).

Thank you!

I think Upside Down Brilliance is the best of the lot, though I have to say that it was the first book I read on the subject, and so the others lacked the novelty factor. I also have not read the book "If you Could See..." at all. Linda Silverman of the GDC (Gifted Development Center) wrote the Upside Down book, which really started the ball rolling on visual spatial kids.

I have the first two, and between those two, Upside Down Brilliance is hands-down the better book to get - if you can get it. They're really very different though. Topsy-Turvy kids has more of a handbook feel and it's a lot shorter. Upside Down Brilliance goes into the whole theory of the VSL, the why, the how, as well as providing some detail on educational tips (for that, the articles on the visual-spatial website are extremely helpful as well). Upside Down Brilliance was really a game-changer for me in terms of helping me to understand my kids - as well as myself, shockingly. That book is huge to me.

I recommend Upside-Down Brillance. That book is a huge help to me too. That has really changed the way I approach my DS6 with discipline, school work, everything. HTH. You might also like "The Mislabeled Child."

Thank you for the recommendations! I am glad that it is almost summer, and I will have a lot of research time before I make decisions. Through this all, in the past few days even, my DH and I both are remembering things about ourselves when we were little that are so much like our DS. So much. And I feel like those of you who have responded to me (in only a few days) are kindred spirits. Thank you! -Michelle