I thought we were done with diagnoses. Isn't Autism, ADHD, and Executive Function Disorder enough? I guess God has other plans. Let me back up a little. Things began falling apart for Sweet Pea in the 2nd grade. Her reading level decreased, her test scores dropped, and her spelling was atrocious. But she continued to be at the ...
Visual Perception
New: Visual Perception Curriculum
In January 2009, I was introduced to a developmental term on a personal level as an optometrist explained yet another severe delay my son was battling. Hearing it from an optometrist one would assume it concerned his visual acuity which refers to how clearly he saw things and whether or not he needed glasses to fix the visual ...
Crossing the Midline and Why It’s Important
Hang around an Occupational Therapist or preschool teacher for a while and you will hear them say something about the midline. In our case, the therapist said, "Bubs is unable to cross the midline." I assumed this was bad, but I didn't know why or how to help the problem. Crossing the Midline Here is a definition of crossing the ...
Visual Perception Activities
Pin It Today, Bubs and I braved the elements to attend his vision therapy screening. Going into the appointment I didn't know if I should be praying that he has a vision problem or not. If the learning difficulties were visual then the issue could be fix with glasses. Seemed like an easy fix to me. But if the problem was not visual, then we had ...
Understanding Sensory Processing Disorder
A few days ago, LaToya posted the question: How did you get an understanding of SPD?? When Bubs was just 18 months old, I realized that the "fits" that we were dealing with were not normal. I talked to friends and family members but they didn't get it. They didn't understand the magnitude of these fits and really how helpless I ...
Drawings
Bubs has never liked to draw. Up until a couple of days ago, if you asked him to draw something, he scribbled. I looked in the magazines that we receive and saw these great pictures that kids Bubs' age drew. I knew that the problem stemmed back to his fine motor skills but we had to turn the tide. Along with the Visual Perception Activities ...
What is He Seeing?
I have had several people ask me about Bubs' visual perception issues. The best way that I can explain it is to say that the hardware is all there (his eyes work correctly) but the software is having malfunctions (what he sees is not translating to his brain correctly.) I believe that this is much more common than teachers realize. Could you ...
Calm Week…
This week has been pretty calm for Bubs. He has had his fits of yelling and throwing things but they have been short lived. Some of it is that I have a definitely plan when issues arise and can follow through immediately. Mostly though, I believe that the therapy is continuing to help. Our OT introduced us to the game ThinkFun Rush Hour Jr. ...
Visual Perception
Now that I have all of the visual perception worksheets made, Bubs and I are working on them each afternoon. We took the 1-1 worksheets from each of the categories. For that, I saw which ones I need to make more of and which ones I feel like he has pretty well. The drawing continues to be the hardest. Bubs continually wants to draw "/" & "" ...
Visual Perception Activity
We continue to work on Bub's visual perception by looking for activities to help. I had googled "visual perception activities" to hopefully find some ideas. I just came up frustrated. Our therapist suggested googling "visual perceptual activities". I hit gold!I found this wonderful site at Ed Helper that has almost 75 worksheets that are ...