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A Child's Experience
Making sense of information is challenging when you have a visual processing disorder. Your ability to make sense of information may be caused by the processing of information. Sometimes the information involving your sight is misinterpreted in a way that challenges you. In this way, your eyes are looking, while your brain is seeing. They appear to be doing two different things. This becomes the overall problem, it is not your fault. This is a challenge that can be addressed with corrective lenses or by strengthening the eyes. Occupational therapists and special educators can assist and help develop coping skills to deal with specific issues by using aids, tools, and understanding that visual processing challenges can be overcome.
Here are some useful tips and strategies that will help your learning. When you're having trouble reading things in any subject, consider using larger print reading materials with well spaced words or numbers. Another way you can become a better reader is by using markers or highlighters to help with tracking while you read. to block out material that is not the immediate focus. When you Highlight information when your reading you can follow the key information better. Tools like computers or recording devices can be great sources to visualize or listen to, and sometimes computer programs offer unique options, like highlighting individual words, which is a reading strategy that is easy to apply. Find it’ games like the I Spy series to build visual discrimination skills, or jigsaw puzzles.
