To score high on all 9 intelligence's in your child.

A Genius
Geniuses are people who see opportunities in 'no win' situations. Geniuses are people who can make a world of connections between two seemingly unrelated pieces of information. Assuming that all human beings are born with more or less similar mental capabilities, how is it that only a few of us are considered geniuses? and some of us are considered as poor performers?

The Human Brain
Our brain consists of two hemispheres - the left and the right, each with their individual set of attributes. For instance, the ability to form words lie primarily in the left hemisphere, whereas the right hemisphere controls many abstract reasoning skills.

These two hemispheres communicate by connections between neurons. All sensations, thoughts, movements, memories, and feelings are a result of signals that pass through these neurons. It is the interconnections between these neurons that determine the intelligence of a child. The brain of a genius shows more interconnections between neurons.

These connections between neurons can be developed using stimulating thinking exercises. 9 SMART is a program that has been designed, to exercise the brains of young children to ensure, an increase in the number of connections between the neurons. Once neurons initiate these new connections - there is no limit to which the brain can tap the various intelligence's.

Multiple Intelligence's Theory
In the early 1980's, Howard Gardner - a professor at the Harvard University and author of many books and articles came up with the theory of multiple intelligence's. Through his studies - nine different types of intelligence's were identified in children. They are:

• Verbal / Linguistic Intelligence
  The ability to think in words and to use language to express and appreciate complex meanings. A famous word smart person is Agatha Christie.
• Logical / Mathematical Intelligence
  The ability to recognize patterns, work with abstract symbols, calculate, quantify, use scientific thinking for reasoning. A famous number smart person is Archimedes.
• Intra Personal Intelligence
  The ability to construct an accurate perception of oneself. A famous example is Columbus.
• Interpersonal Intelligence
  The ability to work co-operatively with others. To communicate verbally, non-verbally. To notice contrasts in moods, motivations and intentions. Some famous people for their interpersonal intelligence are Mahatma Gandhi and Oprah Winfrey.
• Visual Spatial Intelligence
  The ability to visualize objects from different perspectives and angles. A famous picture smart person is Picasso.
• Kinesthetic Intelligence
  The ability to use the body to express emotion (dance and body language), play (sports), manipulate objects (crafts) or create a new product (invention). Some famous body smart people are Michael Jordan and Rukmini Devi Arundale.
• Musical Intelligence
  The ability to recognize and use rhythmic and tonal patterns, be sensitive to sounds from the environment, the human voice and musical instruments. Be sensitive to melody, pitch, melody and tone. Some musically intelligent people are Mozart and Beethoven.
• Natural Intelligence
  The ability to recognize and classify species, grow plants or tame animals. Some renowned examples of naturally intelligent people are Jane Good all and Medha Patkar.
• Existential Intelligence
  The ability to think and question about life, death and ultimate holistic realities. An example is Socrates.

About 9 SMART
The 9 SMART is a brain development program, that has been scientifically designed by Dr. VASANTHI VASUDEV, to hone and nurture the nine intelligence's present in our children. By using fun based real life situations, children between the ages of 6 - 14 solve 9 types of mental puzzles to develop and connect the nine intelligence's. These exercises help stimulate the neuron connections, thereby leading to a new thinking processes for our children.

The program concentrates primarily on, opening up of the minds of children at an early age, thereby opening up new magical horizons, that help them to think fluently and appropriately.

Benefits of 9 SMART

Development of the nine intelligence's will result in whole brain development and in the unleashing of creative potential, which makes ordinary humans a great genius!
Specifically speaking, 9 Smart will result in improvement in the following skills:

• Memory power
• Problem solving ability
• Creative thinking- fluency, flexibility, accuracy and appropriateness of thinking.
• Mind expansion
• Development of higher order mental capacities like analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
• Development of the above skills will benefit students in their academics by improving their:
• Reading Skills
• Math Skills
• Writing Skills
• Spelling Skills
• Speed Reading
• Study Skills
• Self- awareness Skills
• Planning and goal setting Abilities

All of the above will naturally lead to

• High Academic Performance
• All Round Personality Development of the student - even at the early years.

Course Information

9Smart is a 20-month program, spanning for two academic years and it has been specially created for four age groups:

The program runs for one and a half hours every week. One course book will be completed in 4 weeks. Follow up exercises will be given upon the completion of each book. The two Year course will have four cycles.
Testing and evaluation will be conducted at the end of each cycle.

After successful completion of one level, the child goes to the next level. Certificates are issued on successful completion of EVERY LEVEL.

About the creator of the course

Dr Vasanthi Vasudev has a multi-dimensional experience of over 20 years in the field of Teaching, Educational Management/Principal ship and Training to which she combines her unique skills in Quality Consulting and Technology based learning.

After a stint as college lecturer, she moved into educational management. She worked as a Principal of a reputed CBSE school in Chennai for 7 years and led the school to rapid growth and popularity. In 1998,Vasanthi received the Best Principal CBSE Schools award -conferred by the Wisdom International, Chennai.

Vasanthi is also a Registered QMS Auditor. Along with her team members has been working as a Quality Consultant with educational institutions, to develop Quality Management Systems and to prepare them for ISO 9001-2000 Certification.

Vasanthi also combines her pedagogic expertise with hands on work in the field of technology-based learning.

Vasanthi is a Learning specialist. She has been involved in numerous action research projects concerning innovative teaching and evaluation styles that focus on the learner and on whole brain development. Her area of Action Research has been on Brain Based Learning and she has developed many new - generation products for optimizing brain potential for children and adults.

The experience garnered over years of interacting with students, combined with an understanding of curricular subjects helped to develop a counseling model based on brain based learning preferences and she uses this model to help students to arrive at career options.

Vasanthi is now an independent consultant to IL&FS ETS and she also develops and implements program on their behalf. In addition to this, she shares her knowledge and experience with other leading educational institutions, in her capacity as a consultant.

She has developed and has successfully implemented program in Lawrence School, Lovedale, Good Shepherd International School, Ooty, Vidya Mandir Mylapore, Chennai, India International School & India International Institute of Management Jaipur, Annamalai University and many others.