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Saturday, April 28, 2012

What does it mean when someone tells me my child learns better through auditory or visual channels?



Auditory Perceptional Difficulties
An individual might have difficulty distinguishing subtle differences in sound (called phonemes) or might have difficulty distinguishing individual phonemes as rapidly as the normal population. Either problem can result in difficulty processing and understanding what is said. The person may have difficulty identifying what sound(s) to listen to when there is more than one sound present.
Visual Perceptional Difficulties
An individual might have difficulty distinguishing subtle differences in shapes (called graphemes). They might rotate or reverse letters or numbers (d, b, p, q, 6, 9); thus misreading the symbol. Some might have a figure-ground problem, confusing what figure(s) to focus on from the page covered with many words and lines. They might skip words, skip lines, or read the same line twice. Others might have difficulty blending information from both eyes to have depth perception. They might misjudge depth or distance, bumping into things or having difficulty with tasks where this information is needed to tell the hands or body what to do. Students with visual perception problems often are poor readers. (LDA.org)

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