Spld - Visual processing

[antigone25]

Does anyone have any experience of or advice for a child who has just been diagnosed as having a problem in this area please?

It was thought during KS 1 that she might have dyslexia which was ruled unlikely when she was 6. She showed some symptoms which fitted with add and appeared to present with some short term memory problems. However, nothing quite fitted.

She received a year of OT for writing.

Now tested at 8, everything is explained perfectly by slow visual processing, and poor visual/fine motor integration. Tracking/convergence and benefits of coloured lenses were checked at 6 so I think she might have escaped the more severe kinds of problem, unless she was too young at that age to tell for sure.

Her visual memory is fine - on 99.8th centile. Maths is a problem as is planning writing coherently - her ideas are all over the place, or never make it to the page.

What should I be doing and what might I expect please?
Thank you for any help.

You need to do vision therapy with a behaviour optometerist.

Slow visual processing can be caused by being cross dominant. (ie Right handed, but left eyed). This can be cured / improved by vision therapy.

Thanks very much for that information Indigo.

Hi antigone25

You could have a look at a 2008 research paper [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18389017
Cognitive subtypes of dyslexia]] which discusses both auditory processing and visual processing problems which can cause the dyslexic symptom.

There is also an online PubMed research paper collection Dyslexia and Visual Processing from the last decade of research papers

Thank you dolfrog - they should keep me busy for a while!