According to Contra Costa Community College District, each student has his/her own learning style: audio, visual, or tactile/kinesthetic. At their Diablo Valley College, they have a Learning Styles Survey in their disabled student services website.
They state its purpose is simply to let you know what your best learning style is.
They state that a learning style does not indicate a disability.
What do you think? Does a learning style indicate a disability?
Take their Learning Styles Survey for yourself at www.dvc.edu/dss
At the website, click on Learning Styles Survey.
OR
Just click this shortcut >>>
www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi
Answer the 32 questions, then press “Submit your answers”.
The computer software will then give you a raw score of your visual/verbal, visual/nonverbal, auditory, and kinesthetic. Then it will predict what your best learning style is.
Tell me what you think.
My raw score was visual/nonverbal - 26, visual/verbal - 20, auditory - 38, kinesthetic - 26.
The software predicted that I have a auditory/verbal learning style.
What do you think?
Re: Does a learning style indicate a disability?
Hi,
First, there’s an extra period at the end of the URL you posted. Try…
www.dvc.edu/dss
I got a 30 - 28 - 18 - 24. Primarily Visual/Non-Verbal.
If I took it again tomorrow I might(I would, I know I would) change a number of answers and ‘be’ something else.
Self-rating scales/questionaires are notoriously unreliable. Look at the Myers-Briggs for instance(oh-oh now I’m in trouble.) They are useful at times at the beginning of a conversation/exploration of the subject, but not at all definitive. They are about as accurate as asking someone if they are good at math or English - it depends on the level of awareness of the person.
I’ve have always been taught by the LD experts in my office that a learning style is not a disability, it’s just a learning style - a preferred way to do things. For instance, I can’t stand to have someone read to me for any length of time because it’s soooooo slow. Please just give me the book and let me read it. I don’t care how fast someone can read aloud, I can read faster silently. It might be an attitude disability, but it’s not a reading or listening disability.
John
No, I don’t think it’s an indication of learning disability. Some LD kids are strongly one way or the other but due to deficits in a weak area, that would be significant. Many autistic kids are strongly visual, but visual thinking alone doesn’t indicate autism (might indicate *artism*). And not all autistic people are visual thinkers despite a lot of talk of this.
BUT, i think a kid could be mislabeled as ld due to learning style. Suppose the kid is very strongly visual and kinesthetic, and the school (as many schools are) is teaching primarily thru auditory channnels, this could function as ld. I have heard of enough of these kids, they end up going to some experiential private school and flourish.
I think it should be a part of an ld evaluation, but often is not. Both to help the teachers out (which modality does this kid learn best thru) and also to rule out an extreme preference for one style of learning even if there are no deficit areas.
—des