What causes a person to be predominantly right-brained?
It is a genetic trait that a person gets from their parent or parents. Right-brained persons are born seeing and understanding the world in whole concrete images. These are pictures that are complete in all their details. For example, you say “horse” and the sound of that word brings a full concrete image of a horse to your mind. The major learning difference is that the left brain can also see and understand that a group of letters represents a sound. For example: the letters in the word horse can be sounded out to arrive at the word and its meaning: ho- r- se. This is the way we are taught in school to sound out words. But the right brain cannot do this as it cannot understand what the letters represent on their own in the small groups. They need the whole word horse. So we have to find ways to teach the student to spell words and learn to read them in a sentence. They have many excellent traits that are different from those of us who are left brained. Because it sees and thinks in w
