Start with an assessment
Get an eye exam first if there has not been a recent one; it rules out the optics. After that, Developmental Milestones under six, and the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile from seven upward.
Visual processing
Visual processing is what the brain does with what the eyes deliver. Vision can test as normal and the picture can still arrive slowly, unstably, or without the figure separating from the ground.
After the eyes have done their part
Two systems handle what arrives from the eyes, and they hand work to each other.
Occipital lobe
Figure-ground discrimination, visual discrimination, visual-motor integration, visual processing speed and visual tracking.
Parietal lobes
Visual-spatial attention and memory, and visual sequential memory.
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What people describe
Vision that tests as normal and reading that does not work are not a contradiction. They are measuring different things.
- Eyes sliding off the line when reading
- Losing an object that is in plain sight
- Copying from a board taking far longer than it should
- Catching, cutting and handwriting all lagging together
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy, structured therapy after injury, illness or decline. Tracking, figure-ground discrimination and visual-motor integration are trained as separate skills, matched to whichever the assessment flagged.
Questions people ask
What people ask when the eye exam came back clear and reading still does not work.
Have I not already had my eyes checked?
Probably, and that is worth doing. An eye exam measures the optics. Visual processing measures what the brain does with the signal afterwards, and the two can disagree.
What does remediation look like here?
Targeted, repeated work on discrimination, tracking and visual-motor integration, matched to the domain the assessment flagged.
Can this improve in an adult?
Yes. Neuroplasticity is not restricted to childhood, though the plan and the pace differ.
What runs alongside a session
The media, audio and cases we use in the clinic, sold through our storefront.
Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 33 minute
Forest, ocean and sky, all three at session length, bought together.
$49.95 USD
My “Lived-Experience” Journal
Handwriting reaches memory and emotional processing along pathways typing does not. Shipped inside the US.
$14.95 USD
Children’s Relaxation: The Little Girl, The Dragon and The Owl
A bedtime story a child breathes along with, so the breathing is learned without being taught.
$9.95 USD
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Rule out the optics, then check the processing
An eye exam measures the signal arriving. This measures what the brain does with it afterwards.