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“The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.” Albert Einstein (West, 1999)

Are our students like Einstein? Do they think in images rather than in words? Einstein also said that he had great difficulty translating his ideas into words. Perhaps many of the students who are classified as having learning disabilities are visual thinkers who are masters of images but deficient in their use of language. Yet we teach using language… Continue