Does your child learn best through pictures, images, or educational multi-media? Do you need to find visual aids for learning to help your child?

Visual Aids for Learning: A Key to Success for Visual Learners

If your child struggles to learn, there are many ways to teach your child without using text-based teaching materials. There are educational posters, graphic books (with lots of pictures, diagrams, and drawings). You can also use educational videos, DVDs, and online learning tools, which make great visual aids for learning too.

You’ll find our Science section contains links to animated or visual content, which you can use in your teaching. The sites listed in the science section present new concepts using visuals or audio presentations. These visual aids for learning science are fun for children too. Your child can play and learn all at once. As you probably know, fun learning is usually remembered better too!

Educational Videos and DVDs as visual aids for learning:

• **Discovery Education’s United Streaming Video – This is an online, streaming video-on-demand service. They offer thousands of Discovery Channel videos with unlimited access for a year with a paid subscription. If you want unlimited content, you can’t beat Discovery Channel!
• Amazon has many great educational DVDs and videos available, and I love using reviews to select GOOD DVDs. When you head over there, search for educational DVDs for Kids. You can consider adding a specific topic to your search if you’re looking for one on a particular topic. The variety of options for audio-visual learning spans all subjects!
• Fogware’s Learning System is good for children with specific learning disabilities. The program was developed by a businessman who grew up with dyslexia. Therefore, he truly understands the need for multisensory teaching methods and visual aids for learning. Fogware’s Learning System provides interactive, computer-based learning units. There are visual aids for learning in each lesson, as well as text and text-to-speech content. This makes these programs effective AND fun! The interfaces are simple and consistent, and the screens are uncluttered and easy to navigate. While these programs are not a “complete” curriculum, they have a lot of wonderful content to reinforce your child’s learning. There are many topics in each level, which include Science, History, Math, Geography, Reading, Literature, etc. Given the modest price of the software, you will undoubtedly get your money’s worth out of the programs just by having your child watch and interact with some of the lessons. Samples of the programs were sent to us for review.

Other great visual aids for learning include educational games! Many children find games FUN and they learn a great deal by playing games. Educational games reinforce learning through creative, hands-on repetition.

Check out these educational posters as visual aids for learning for your visual learner:

I’ve searched to find educational posters on a wide variety of subjects. We bought posters of marine animals, the weather cycles, the periodic table of elements, and more. Hanging a poster on the wall and going through the visuals on it each day can help your visual learner remember concepts!  If you think your child is a visual learner, then educational posters are a great resource.