Growing Up with Sensory Issues: Insider Tips from a Woman with Autism by Jennifer McIlwee Myers

Author:Jennifer McIlwee Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

How Bad Could It Get?

Fortunately for me, I can easily keep track of objects like cars around me, whether they are moving or stopping, and thus drive safely. This is not true of all people with SPD that affects their visual processing.

The process that allows us to know that as objects get “larger” in our field of vision they are actually getting closer isn’t intuitive to every child. This is another case where your friendly neighborhood behavioral optometrist can be a big help.

For kids with severe visual processing problems, getting lost may be the rule rather than the exception. When one street looks much like another, or when visual information is hard to retrieve, it’s easy to wander into the wrong part of the school or neighborhood.

I know an extremely bright young man who is currently doing undergraduate studies. His girlfriend wound up spending untold hours training him to find the places on and near campus that he needed to be. Imagine being a student and not being able to consistently locate the local 24-hour Taco Bell drive thru, even after being there a dozen times!

There are many tasks that we do without ever thinking about what we are actually doing with the vast amount of visual data involved. I can’t imagine what it is like for a child with very iffy visual processing to go to the grocery store right after the floor plan has been entirely reorganized. You think you hate it when they change where everything is? Try doing it when you can’t pick items out of a visual field without identifying each item separately.

People with sensory discrimination disorder that affects their processing of visual data HATE Where’s Waldo.

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