School of Thought

Mrs. Slocum has extensive experience teaching math to students with learning differences.   Her approach is fresh and always entertaining. 

Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD): What is it?
Kate Mitchell, Director of Dominion Education Center

The research shows that nearly 95% of our communication is nonverbal. Among otherthings, this includes the various gestures we use when explaining something, the tone we use to stress the urgency of a situation, or even the expression on our faces that often reveals our emotional state.

Put simply, NLD impairs ones ability to process this nonverbal information. Now that you know these gestures and expressions account for nine-tenths of our communications back and forth to one another, how do you think it might feel if you are not able to recognize and interpret these nonverbal cues? How hard would it be to know how to respond if you can’t hear that someone has just asked a question or see that they are really asking to be reassured?