David Grant Audiobooks

Assessment reports rarely make good reading, which may be why David Grant set out to write their opposite. A chartered psychologist who has spent more than thirty years working in higher education, Grant specialises in identifying specific learning differences in adults, and his book grew directly out of that practice: thousands of conversations with students and professionals about how they actually experience their own thinking.

That method gives the writing its character. Rather than opening with diagnostic criteria, he begins with everyday life, sleep, sport, visualisation, memory and creativity, and lets the descriptions of dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and dyscalculia emerge from what people report. Real accounts, quoted in their own words, do most of the explaining.

He is also candid about overlap. In practice these conditions rarely arrive one at a time, and the compound difficulties that follow are the part most guides skip. A regular speaker on the subject, Grant has revised the book across successive editions as the research and the language have moved on.

The audio edition of That’s the Way I Think resolves a small irony rather neatly: a book about the varied ways people process written information is now open to anyone who would rather listen than read, which describes a fair share of its intended readership.

Stephen R. Thorne reads the six hours straight and unhurried, which is the right choice. The material is full of first-person accounts, and any temptation to perform them would only have got in the way. The chapters are self-contained enough that you can go directly to whichever matters most to you, whether that is dyscalculia, sleep or the passages on visual thinking.

It is a recent arrival with its listener ratings still to accumulate. If you have been newly identified, are supporting someone who has, or are simply curious about why your own mind works the way it does, begin below.