How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence: Read America's Revolutionary Language Wise Programme: The Language Wise Method

by Carmen McGuinness

Verbal intelligence is defined by the authors as the ability 'to understand, make judgements about, store, retrieve and talk about what we think, hear or read'. It is also the faculty upon which creativity and the expression of imagination is based.This book takes the reader (and learner) through a series of exercises which will help develop this ability. All the exercises are easy to grasp and can be practised anywhere - at home, on the bus or at school and they are beneficial for all children aged five upwards to teenagers.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Dr. Carmen McGuinness is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and health psychologist, specializing in children with disabilities, attachment, and family trauma. In addition to working with children and parents, Dr. McGuinness has taught psychology graduate students and is the author of three popular academic books. Recently she released her first fiction novel, Unintended Consequences a Psychological Romance (June 1, 2017).

Reviews

[Douglas Lord · Rating 3 out of 5]

The McGuinnesses (Reading Reflex: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read) observe that "language is that thing that most strongly connects us to our fellow man" and bemoan the dumbing down of American elementary education. While referencing an impressive number of studies and research projects, their discussion of the components of verbal intelligence is uneven. Each of the six chapters fails to achieve all of their stated objectives. Undefined terms like M-Factor and document literacy level clog the text, and many concepts that should have been explained by exposition are poorly illustrated by example. The book includes 38 improvement exercises, which seem like fun. While the book may enable six- to eight-plus-year-olds to become more "language wise" and to understand, judge, store, retrieve, and discuss what they think, hear, and read, it is debatable just how much of an organized method this constitutes. While parents would do fine with something like Harvey S. Wiener's Talk With Your Child, now, regrettably, out of print, this is more appropriate for curriculum and teaching collections.

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[Mati · Rating 5 out of 5]

"So long as the world holds new challenges, old limits must be broken to meet them.""Failure acts as a reward by providing new information and opportunities to try new skills."Great Book