How can I find information about specific learning styles?

[mummytait]

One of my sons appears to have a learning style which I struggle to relate to and I would find it useful to understand it better in order to help him in the future. He keeps information in his head and appears to be able to access it by visualising. Could he have a photographic type memory?Is there a test he could take? Laymans terms would be good as I'm not at all qualified in teaching, I just want some better understanding as I learn in a very different way.

Thanks

[Machecoul]

http://www.laneend.stockport.sch.uk/Visitor/Se ction/Default.asp?idSeller=1&iddepartment=64&i ntThisDepartment=62

Some brief information here.

[mummytait]

thats very helpful, A great starting point Thanks

[Dinosaur2]

Learning styles are normally reduced to visual, auditory and kinaesthetic (VAK) which means that some children learn best when the material is in visual form, pictures and diagrams, others when it is heard in oral explanations or on recordings. Kinaesthetic learners are supposed to learn best when problems involve some kind of physical activity. To be honest the world requires us to be all three, to learn in a range of different ways and I would be reluctant to label a child as one kind of learner or another. The literature on this tends to be technical but if you go into Google and put in learning styles you will find hundreds of sites giving information.