Comments on: Is Your Child A Tactile/Kinetic Learner

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:24:15 +0000

I am so grateful just to have read this brief explanation of a kinetic learner. I have been struggling through 5 months of the school year and multiple parent teacher conferences related to my son’s misconduct. He is on a daily progress report for his “lack of effort and misconduct” Another teacher happened to share with me his feeling that my son may be a kinetic learner and here I am. He scored a 2 on all but one of the traits listed above. I am now on a mission to help my son make it through the 4th grade. I also feel better prepared for an upcoming parent teacher conference. Thank you so much. I look forward to reading more.

By: fareed

fareed — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:15:59 +0000

my child is 7 and half and have scored 2 on three of your points aND FITS to the kinetic learners group.
i am very glad my wife discovered this site on teh web and now we can concentrate and tell teh school nurse what I think that our son is been doing all this time is normal and that we have to chage and accept.
Could you givwe more guidance how we should approach and what the future be for child, i mean will they change with age as they grow.

Thank you keep up the good work.
look forward to hear from you

thank you

By: Brooke

Brooke — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:02:27 +0000

WOW!! So thankful that I have discovered this! My 6 year old scored a 2 on every point. I, too, was very worried about my little girl. I hope to learn more so I can help her, and us and her teachers and coaches!!!! Hopefully I have discovered this just in time!!!

By: Melody Bennett

Melody Bennett — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:18:53 +0000

My 7 yr old son scores a 2 on all these things. This excites me to find that maybe he doesn’t have ADHD as severe as his dad or it’s mild like his big sister. One thing he does that isn’t listed and i’m wondering about is he is always making noises. His teacher says if he’s not talking, he’s making sound effects, beeping, motor noises, gun noises… he does this at home too. Is this part of Kinetic learning or audio learning?

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:36:17 +0000

Wow!! I pretty much knew at the age of 3 1/2 that my son was a kinetic learner. Now, at age 5, he scored a 2 on EVERY one of the questions in this article. We are waiting 1 more year to start kindergarten. Hopefully by then I will have enough info on his learning style to start him & his teacher off on the right foot.

By: yurtdisi dil egitimi

yurtdisi dil egitimi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:44:26 +0000

These are not surprising my anymore, but thanks..

By: karen

karen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:38:51 +0000

This is very interesting about kinetic learners…My son is 18 months old, and I’m already seeing his preference for moving around above doing almost anything else! Do you suppose this is too early to determine that he is a kinetic learner? I’d like to approach things in ways that will be appropriate for his “learning style”…

By: brenda kennell

brenda kennell — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:10:43 +0000

I is most helpful to me. I have a seven year old that has difficulty reading and following through on instructions.

By: Steff

Steff — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:54:32 +0000

I, too, am so happy to have found this article. My daughter is 9 and in 4th grade. She has always had trouble with reading and I have her enrolled in a parochial school, where rules, order and strict discipline are constanctly practiced. She has not thrived, except for that they send her to a special class for remedial work. They seem to routinely send her to this class, without really trying to see why she needs it.

I have been carefully monitoring her approach to her work. I have been very worried that she had some kind of learning disorder, dyslexia or ADHD. Though, she really didn’t fit the majority of qualities of any of those.

She is very coordinated, to the point that people are amazed at her abilities. Her friend’d dad is a tennis pro and my daughter had never played tennis, but was out with her friend when the dad took them to go hit a few balls. My daughter returned the serves like she had been playing for years. he called me in shock and said she had incredible coordination - and should be enrolled in sports. She will begin basketball this winter.

Anyway, what really worried me was that when she would read, she had trouble, and couldn’t sit still. Literally, she would almost stand on her head!! This has been going on for years. Whenever she was engaged in homework, reading or studying, she would move around (fidget). She does not do this at any other time and is not a hyperactive child. I mentioned it to the reading specialist, who was puzzled and said she had never heard of anything resulting in such movement. Later, she approached me and said that she, too, had begun to notice this (after I mentioned it to her).

So, here is what I have begun to do. 1. I have not agreed to the remedial class this year. I think the school is using it as a crutch and to reduce their class size. I never get any feedback from the progrma and when I ask questions, they never know the answers. They did, at my request, perform a battery of tests, which yielded interesting resuts, but no plan of action or diagnosis. 2. I spend much more time working with her. We study for tests using flas cards and prep tests that I create on the computer. We make it fun and she is allowed to move around and, at intervals, release energy in any way she wants (singing,screaming, performing for me, telling me a joke, being silly). We did this last week and she scored a 95 on a major science exam - and a 100 on her spelling test. She is a good speller - but a nervous reader. Her teachers makes them read in front of the class, which makes her very nervous and anxious. I feel so badly for her.

Now, after reading this site’s article, I think we’ve found the answer! I am going to spend time researching kinetic learning. Thank you!!!

If you have any other advice for me, please email me.

By: Kim Sockrider

Kim Sockrider — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:34:43 +0000

I am so thankful that I found your website. My youngest and most energetic child is having alot of trouble sitting still in the classroom. I an confident that now I can assist him with his stlye of learning. I dreaded the label of ADHD for him. I wanted something else to go on other than a label of ADHD, and many years of struggling in school. Great Information!

Thank you!

Mom
(Kim)