What is the Maverick Mind?

The Maverick Mind, discovered by Dr. Cheri Florance, is a brain that functions at above the 99th percentile in the visual pathway and below the 1st percentile in the verbal pathway. Mavericks have such strong visual thinking that an enemy relationship has formed between picture thinking and words.

Child Mavericks

Often the symptoms of a Maverick are similar to symptoms of Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). When Mavericks are misdiagnosed from a symptom assessment, they can become frustrated and appear unmotivated. Some Mavericks are diagnosed as gifted in certain situations. When Mavericks are correctly identified and begin appropriate training, they often experience success very quickly.

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Adult Mavericks

Adult mavericks often are very visually quick thinkers who can jump ahead to the bottom line or manage a crisis brilliantly. Conversations can seem too slow and unnecessary. We have seen hundreds of medical students who do a superior job performing in a lab and fail when taking a reading-writing test on the same subject, law students who are excellent in practicum and fail the bar exam, executives who can easily see solutions before staff members resulting in friction at work, and spouses that have trouble with intimacy because lingering over a conversation is counter intuitive to them. Visual thinkers are the best of the breed. The most famous thinkers throughout history, Einstein, Churchill, DaVinci, have been primarily visual.

In Brain Engineering programs, we use strong visual thinking to boost weaker auditory - language processing. For each component of visual attention and memory there is a language partner, and by teaching the visual to help the auditory a synergy results. If left untrained, a friction or antagonism can develop that causes the verbal system to perform erratically or shut down.

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Read the "Maverick Mind"

Learn how Dr. Florance developed the ground breaking Brain Engineering Programs

Unwilling to label her son or give up on him, Dr. Florance began noticing the little ways in which he was desperately trying to transmit his ideas and feelings. A brain scientist and speech pathologist by profession, Dr. Florance was uniquely equipped to interpret oblique signals as she attempted to unravel the mysteries of a brain that seemed to be incorrectly wired. Tackling Whitney's problem from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint, she traced his difficulties to his high level of visual thinking. Able to provide expertise in speech and hearing science and in psychology, she found the key to unlocking both his thoughts and his emotions.
- Margaret Flanagan Copyright © American Library Association.