Discovering and Developing Talents © 2001 Stephen Holland sholland@softwaves.net Hiddentalents.org

This site is aimed at helping people understand and respect individual differences,
and helping parents and teachers discover and develop talents in children.
( Only some of the pages are currently on line )

The Patchwork Quilt Brain	Colorblindness Tests	Music	Sports	Social	Language
Operating Equipment	Math			Art	Education
Logic	Creativity			Nature vs Nurture

Leonardo da Vinci is an ideal symbol of the Hidden Talents theme. He is considered one of the world's greatest artists and inventors, yet he had such severe dyslexia that his writing was mirror-image backwards. Ironically, in modern North American schools, he would likely be taken out of art classes and put into remedial reading classes for the learning disabled, possibly put on drugs for an attention deficit disorder, told to stop messing up his notebooks with sketches and doodling of inventions, yelled at for day-dreaming in class, and would be considered a dummy because his reading problems made him get low grades in academic university-prep classes. Fortunately for Leonardo, he was born 500 years ago, when art careers were considered as important as university careers. This website will help look for the "Leonardo-ness" in every person.

Stephen Holland --- sholland@softwaves.net