Understanding the Learning Difficulty

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Many things are running through your mind. The difficult is filtering the necessary information and organizing the questions you maybe having. 

The brain processes information in many ways, but with a visual processing disorder, the brain In every practical and everyday tasks particular weaknesses can demonstrate a visual processing disorder (VPD). Your child may have a specific challenge processing information visually. There are several areas that classify how the visual processing affects learning. In the journal review published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry with practical Neurology, documented information showing neuroimaging evidence that classifies the functional anatomical networks likely to be involved with VPD and the class of underlying disability. The wider perspective forces us to consider what visual functions underlie a range of symptoms sidelined by previous classificatory schemes and helps generate novel hypotheses for further research in the area.
There are seven areas; Spatial Relationships, Visual Closure, Visual Memory, Visual Motor Processing, Visual Sequencing, Visual Figure-Ground Discrimination, and Visual Discrimination. Many of these areas display deficits to your child's learning style. The element of understanding how to support your child's learning is most important.

After understanding the VPD, you may have to consider the next steps The IEP process is the next challenging process when faced with a child having a learning disability. Websites like the Beachcenter.org have created helpful guides called knowledge to action guides that provides tips and resources for the many complicated and misunderstood questions, that many people have. These useful guides help educate families about the difficult process of having a child classified as learning disabled. 

Another challenge is understanding the language of special education and learning disabilities. Sources online have created simple links that highlight the acronyms of special education.