does anyone else relate?

Have you actually been diagnosed with a visual processing disorder by a professional in the field, or is this just a suspicion that you or other non-professionals have?

I ask because this kind of thing shows up in non-disabled students very often as learned behaviour/bad habits, which can be un-learned. It takes a lot of work and effort and a fair amount of time, but it can be done.

Understanding or comprehension, and the need to re-read, are different questions from visual processing. You may have two disorders, it does happen, or you may have inefficient learned behaviours here, too. In fact when I see all these problems together I suspect bad teaching and counterproductive approaches.

First coping strategy: if you read better early in the morning, well then, do your reading in the morning. Don’t wait for the work to be assigned to you; read ahead and be prepared.

Second strategy: get in touch with a person trained in scientifically-based reading programs such as Lindamood-Bell or Orton-Gillinghamor others of the sort, and have your reading behaviour analyzed. There are many skills you can be taught to improve your reading.

Third strategy: read aloud to yourself. You’re up early in the morning in your room alone (if you can stay awake it’s fun to stay warm and cozy in bed and do your reading there) and you can read aloud without anyone thinking it is odd. This connects the reading to the speech centers and often makes a big difference in comprehension. try it for a week and tell us how it goes.

[quote:456ea3dab7=”TeddyBear”]does anyone else relate to this problem I have.
I have a visual processing disorder, i will read some thing once and will have to re-read hundrends of times over in order to gain understanding/meaning of the words.

However this does not pose to be a problem in the early hours of the morning, only form 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon onwards. (i know how it sounds!)
also in the afternoon the words on the page tend to all merge together like long sentances (eg: It was a nice sunny day, would look like itwasanicesunnyday) and it can take me ages to read a standard page of A4 text.

Just wondered if anyone else experiences the same problems, and any coping stategies.

All comments welcome.
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It sounds organic to me.

Here are several possibilities.

1. Cognitive overload. Your brain is constantly processing the world around you whether you want it to or not. Something is going on with your brain. It could be many things but I am guessing that as the day goes on your processing speed slows. Its like you have a lot of programs running in the background and your brain is relegating resources to what it thinks are the most important.

2. A visual problem not related strictly to eyesight.

3. Unconscience emotional conflict unresolved.

4. Medication may be making you confused.

5. Not getting enough recouperativel sleep.

6. Diet ie Malnutrition

Has this problem been long standing?

Hi Teddy,
I’ve heard of similiar problems, which as previously mentioned, are a result of Cognitive Overload. Where the solution is ‘take some time out’, to allow the brain to sort and file all of the recent information.
As a simple and free strategy, over lunchtime, try sitting back and closing your eyes for 10 minutes and take a nap.
Maybe you could try that tommorrow, and let us know if that makes a difference?
You could also have another short nap around around dinner time as well?
Apparently Einstein used to do this half a dozen times a day.
Geoff.

Yes I have been diagnosed by a professional psychologist, at a Dyslexia Cantre.
I was diagnosed with having an information processing disorder.
details of this are explained in a previous post by me titled “Newbie, Please help!”

Hi again.
A lot of us here just use the “view posts since last visit” button and read all of them anyway, so you can just post in the same thread and keep gpoing (just jump over the side topics and off topics).

“Information processing disorder” is an awfully vague expression. Did you get any more details?

About professionals and counselling centers: sometimes they are highly qualified, and sometimes they aren’t. One college assistance center I worked in was founded and run by a full professor with a doctorate who really did know what he was doing; then when he was promoted to college dean, the center ran with no director at all for a year and a half, and then they made a director out of a former secretary with zero training or teaching experience. One extreme to the other.
So just because you went to a college center doesn’t always mean you got a truly professional opinion. You really need to ask a bit more. Besides that diagnosis, there should have been some suggestions for what would work — did you get any?

Also, a psychologist, even if highly qualified, can’t diagnose a vision problem; you need an ophthalmologist to look at they physical structure of the eyes, and you can see if you can find a good develomental optometrist to see how you are using your eye muscles.