I am looking for remedial programs for children with poor visual sequential memory. I am also looking for specialists in the Orange County, NY area that deal with assessments for visual reading problems. If anyone can assist it would be appreciated
Re: Visual Sequential Memory
Behavioral optomitrists do some training in this area. Their treatment is not recognized by the American board of pediatrics. However, I have know several families that have had good outcomes and swear by the treatment. Also, occupational therapists, and neuropsychologists may offer this type of therapy depending on their training.
Re: Visual Sequential Memory
Check out the PACE (Processing and Cognitive Enhancement) program. This program develops and strengthens processing skills thus improving learning skills. The creator of PACE is a pediatric optometrist (Dr. Ken Gibson) and began by providing therapy for students with visual processing problems. In addition to improving many other skills (processing speed, auditory processing and memory, attention and concentration, to name a few), PACE provides training procedures to improve a host of visual processing and visual memory problems. Check out the website: http://processingskills.com
I conduct the program in middle Tennessee. It works!
Hello David,
This is an excerpted a portion of a post the I set in the Teaching with Technology forum.
If you have a bit of time I’d suggest looking into ‘contextual interference” teaching/training methods. This paradigm is most often used in a human performance setting, but it’s roots come from information processing research, visual transfer, and retention.
A few educational researchers are beginning to apply this to LD teaching environments. I believe it is a very applicable given that often a child with LD is prone to draw from the context that a lesson is presented over the route or blocked repetition of that a fill and dump teach for the test paradigm that is most often used in schools.
Best of luck I trust that this will help you
Bear in mind, this is a truncated explanation, I could go on but it may be best if you see if it fits for yourself.
Bill
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William Battig was a big believer in striving for the highest goal even though it may be more difficult to obtain in the short run.
He is noted for introducing the backbone of instruction that has come to known as contextual interference. This method allows a
someone to broaden their cognitive and multi-sensory orientations while engaged in learning something new and therefore set the
information/skill deeper into their long-term memory. His work was picked up by several others such as Shea and Zimny et. al.
It is really fascinating and is beginning to show promise with special cases such as children with learning disabilities.
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