Noted author and learning disabilities/differences expert, Thomas West will speak about learning differences, dyslexia and his updated best selling book “In the Mind’s Eye.” During his visit to Monterey, Mr. West will spend part of a day speaking at Chartwell School (
www.chartwell.org) in Seaside. In the evening, Mr. West will speak at MPC in the Lecture Forum 102 at 7 p.m. The public is invited – there is no charge for admission.
“Dyslexia and other learning differences are commonly seen as disabilities, but they must also be seen as distinctive abilities, different (and often superior) modes of perceiving and understanding the world. As Thomas West shows, some of our greatest minds, from Einstein to Churchill and de Vinci, have been visual thinkers who today might be labeled ‘learning disabled.” “In the Mind’s Eye” makes a powerful case that the dyslexic-visual mind may be full of creative human potential, and is as crucial a part of our cognitive heritage as any others.”
Oliver Sacks
Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Thomas West brings to life the fascination, capacities and syndromes that arise from our visual-spatial imagination. His book proves beyond doubt that we are not all points on a single bell curve of intelligence.”
Howard Gardner
John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligence for the 21st Century
“Unfortunately, I did not discover this wonderful book before I wrote Thinking in Pictures several years ago. I recommend it to teachers, parents, and education policy-makers. West profiles people with dyslexia who are visual thinkers, and his conclusions on the link between visual thinking and creativity are similar to mine.”
Temple Grandin
Associate Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University, and author of the memoir Thinking in Pictures (dealing with her life with autism) and the bestselling Animals in Translation
About Thomas G. West
Thomas G. West, author of “Thinking Like Einstein” and “In the Mind’s Eye” (One of the “best of the best” for the year, American Library Association, new revised edition with Forward by Oliver Sacks, MD, released September 4, 2009). Research Scholar Study Office 1W-16C, National Library of Medicine, tel.(mobile): 202-262-1266. Institutional address: Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Member of the Advisory Board, 4400 University Drive, MS 2A1, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-444.
E-mail:
thomasgwest@aol.com or thomasgwestgmail.com New blog:
http://inthemindseyedyslexicrenaissance.blogspot.com