| A Visual Processing Disorder is the inability for an | | | | numbers, letter, words, pictures and symbols. What |
| individual to make proper sense of information taken in | | | | could be even more frustrating is the fact that |
| through the eyes. This disorder has nothing to do with | | | | something learned today may not be able to be |
| one's vision or the sharpness of it, but it is the | | | | recalled the next day. |
| difficulties experienced with how visual information is | | | | Spatial Relations - This has reference to objects in |
| processed by the sufferer's brain. The individual may | | | | space and their position and also the ability to perceive |
| have 20/20 vision but may have problems in figuring | | | | objects in space in relation to other objects. |
| out background from foreground, size, forms and | | | | Mathematics and reading are two subjects that deal |
| positions in space. | | | | with numbers, letter, symbols and where the |
| Some individuals have difficulties with learning and | | | | understanding of spatial relationships and accurate |
| behavior from time to time but that does not | | | | perception are rather important. A person with this |
| necessarily mean they suffer from any kind of visual | | | | condition, therefore, generally finds it difficult to figure |
| processing disorder. However if these signs and | | | | out the difference between p and q and b and d. |
| symptoms do persist then a visit to a professional will | | | | Visual Closure - The individual finds it difficult to figure |
| be in order, who will then do testing for visual | | | | out an object only if part of it is visible. For example he |
| processing disorders. | | | | she will find it difficult to figure out a word if a letter is |
| There are five main regions affected by Visual | | | | missing from that word, or perhaps will be unable to |
| Processing Disorder. They are object recognition, | | | | recognize a car if the wheels are missing or difficulty in |
| spatial relations, visual closure, visual discrimination and | | | | recognizing a face if the nose or mouth or eye does |
| whole/part relationships. | | | | not complete the picture. |
| Object Recognition - Here the individual finds it difficult | | | | Visual discrimination - Here the individual, by sense of |
| to recognize familiar objects. One reason is because | | | | sight is unable to tell the difference between two |
| they are unable to put the whole image into place. | | | | similar objects, or two similar shapes or even two |
| They see it in parts and not as a whole object. For | | | | similar letters. He/she is also unable to tell or notice the |
| some others it could be a visual memory problem, | | | | differences and similarities between a particular color, |
| where, even if the object is recognized as a familiar | | | | patterns and shapes. |
| object, they may not be able to recollect from | | | | Whole/part relationships - Here the individual finds it |
| memory an object which is similar or are unable to | | | | difficult to recognize an object, for example, either he |
| make a connection between the object before them | | | | she sees the whole object or he/she sees only parts |
| and the remembered object. | | | | of the object. A typical example would be an individual |
| Difficulties in object recollection and recognition can | | | | may see the tree but not the forest or may see the |
| often be frustrating when it comes to learning | | | | forest and not the tree. |