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Most often the students who are labeled with a learning disability have the same styles as people like Einstein and other well-known inventors, scientists, musicians, artists, actors, athletes, and entrepreneurs.

In many cases, college can get in the way of success for these students. In other cases, they find that college can be very different from high school and they take off. Again, the most important thing is to show these students evidence of their intelligence, their talents, and their skills, so that they will be confident about their abilities and make choices that are right for them.

We hope that these thoughts we've shared with you in this series of articles give you a different perspective about college and encourage you to leave the decision about whether to go or not to go up to your children, while providing a "safe" and open forum for discussion, answering their questions, and guiding them to research their options.

copyright 2010 by Willis & Hodson, Reflective Educational Perspectives LLC

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We are not saying, forget college. What we are saying is the people who are the most successful are those who know what they are good at, believe in themselves, are motivated by their talents and what they are passionate about--and go from there. If college is for them, they'll go, and if it's not, it's not. Going to college is not in itself the key to success.

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Learning Style Interview  It's only about 20 minutes long and very informative!

I have read Discover Your Child's Learning Style and have done the Learning Style Assessment with each of my four children. It was amazing what we learned about ourselves and each other by working through these assessments.

A Learning Style Assessment is different than just finding your learning style based on the auditory, visual, kinesthetic model. The assessments also address personality style, learning environment, modality and many other aspects of learning.

Learning styles can be adapted to almost any curriculum depending on the parent's willingness and ability to adapt it. Most textbook and school approaches do not fit with how most people learn.

Learning Styles for Home Schoolers interview