• Visualising
  • Imagining
  • Communication
  • Reasoning
  • Exploring
  • Connecting
  • Dyslexic Difficulties

Visualising

Interacting with space, senses, physical ideas and with new concepts

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Inventing

Exploring new possibilities, making connections and inventing new things

(Like Scientists, Technologists, Entrepreneurs)

Making

Visualising, planning & making

(Like Engineers, Architects, Craft workers, Programmers, Designers, Chefs or Gardeners)

Moving

Using physical interpretation and game playing

(Like Dancers, Musicians or Sports Players)

Imagining

Creating an original piece of work, or giving ideas a new spin

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Creating

Creating completely original work from your imagination

(Like Designers, Artists, Composers or Writers)

Interpreting

Using your imagination to give ideas a new twist, or bring out a fresh angle

(Like Actors, Advertisers, PR People, Directors, Photographers)

Communication

Crafting and conveying clear, engaging messages

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Explaining

Assessing new information or situations and explaining them clearly to other people

(Like Campaigners, Journalists, Marketeers, Politicians or Teachers)

Story-telling

Story-telling, creating vivid and engaging experiences in words, pictures or other media

(Like Authors, Writers, Games Developers, Song Writers, Film Makers)

Reasoning

Understanding patterns, evaluating possibilities and making decisions

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Simplifying

Understanding, taking apart and simplifying complex ideas and concepts

Analysing

Using logic to decide on the strength of an argument or where the truth lies

Deciding

Interpreting patterns and situations to predict future events and make decisions

Visioning

Seeing past detail to gain a strategic (big picture) view of a subject or problem

Exploring

Being curious and exploring new ideas in a consistent and energetic way

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Learning

Having great curiosity for finding out new things and learning new skills

Digging

Looking into things in a way that means that the maximum is learnt or discovered about it

Energising

Being so passionate about something that it gives a buzz and tenacity to learn about it

Doing

Jumping in and using new knowledge to achieve a result that surprises and pleases yourself or others

Connecting

Understanding Self: connecting, empathising and influencing others

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Understanding Self

Recognising and managing your own feelings, and understanding how they affect your own behaviour and that of others

Understanding Others

Understanding and interpreting the verbal, physical & emotional reactions of other people

Influencing

Managing, influencing and inspiring constructive emotions in other people

Empathising

Sensing, understanding and responding (emotionally and/or practically) to how other people feel

Dyslexic Difficulties Test

The following questions are about the difficulties that dyslexic thinkers often have

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Did you have difficulty in learning to read, or did you read later than others?

Does it take you longer than others to read things?

Do you have to read something more than once or several times to get the meaning of what you’ve read?

Is your handwriting poor, or difficult to read?

Do you ever find it difficult to get your thoughts organised and down on paper?

Is your spelling and/or grammar and/or punctuation poor or below average?

Do you find mental maths difficult, e.g. doing sums in your head without writing it down?

Dyslexic Difficulties Test

The following questions are about the difficulties that dyslexic thinkers often have

How good are you at the following?

(Select one answer for each question)

Did you find learning your times tables difficult, or never manage to learn them?

Are you weak at traditional, mental arithmetic, but good at conceptual math?

Do you ever find it difficult to follow instructions and stay on task?

Do you ever get easily distracted, daydream or find it difficult to concentrate for long periods of time?

Do you make leaps, unusual connections and/or use instinct to reach conclusions but find it difficult to explain the step by step process' of how you've reached them?

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Read these numbers two or three times, then close your eyes and recite them backwards. Was it difficult to remember every number in the right order?