Picture Smart Children

What does it mean to be "Picture Smart"? "Picture Smart" is mainly about learning and thinking in pictures. These children have good memories for faces and places, or may notice little details that many people usually overlook. If you can answer yes to any of the questions below, then your child could just be identified as "Picture Smart", according to Thomas Armstrong, PhD.:

Does your child:

1. remember faces better than names?

2. like to draw out ideas or make sketches to help figure out problems?

3. think in pictures and easily see objects in his/her mind?

4. enjoy building things?

5. like taking things apart and putting them back together?

6. work with art materials like paper, paint, and markers?

7. enjoy watching movies or videos?

8. notice the styles of clothing, hairstyles, cars, bikes, or other everyday things?

9. read or draw maps for fun?

10. enjoy looking at photos and pictures and talking about them?

11. see patterns in the world around him/her?

12. draw or doodle a lot?