Needing Suggestions for a Visual Processing Weakness

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Hi,

I have a student who is struggling in just about all areas of school, including specials. He presents with an attention deficit disorder, a visual processing weakness, and a verbal reasoning weakness. I need some suggestions for how best to instruct him.

Thanks,
Jan

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/18/2001 - 1:16 AM

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This boy would probably benefit from some combination of Interactive Metronome (http://www.interactivemetronome.com), vision therapy (http://www.covd.org), Audiblox (http://www.audiblox2000.com) or PACE (http://www.learninginfo.com), and Lindamood Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing (http://www.lindamoodbell.com). About the only thing you could do in a classroom setting would be LMB’s V&V or the activities in the McGuiness book, “How To Increase Your Child’s Verbal Intelligence”.

The approach likely to give the best results for the least amount of money would be Audiblox, but this requires 1/2 to 1 hour per day of one-on-one work with the child. If his parents could do this with him at home, it would probably help considerably in all three areas of weakness you mention. It won’t substitute for vision therapy, however, if the child has severe developmental vision delays. If the parents can afford it, PACE can provide a lot of improvement in a short period of time.

Mary

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/18/2001 - 7:38 PM

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There might not be any easy answers to this child’s needs. How does he struggle in specials? If he’s struggling across the board including classes like art which should not be classes that sit in great judgement of students, there’s something fundamentally the matter. I’d go to his “easiest” class, whatever that is,and find out from that teacher what he needs to be doing differently in there and start from that point.

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