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    DD8's vision was clearly impacting her second grade work, since it kept her from reading normal-size text, made it hard to copy from the board, and gave her trouble keeping digits lined up in math, among other things. We are blessed with an IEP team that understood even better than we did and suggested accommodations, plus the teacher really tried to help. For instance:
    Magnifier available for text (she hates it so didn't make use of it)
    Standardized testing done with a specialist, either photocopy enlarged, with a huge font on a computer screen, or read aloud to her, depending on the test
    Math work done on grid paper
    For now, ignore reversed letters and digits; if math answers are wrong, consider whether switching digits was the error. If so, ok to mark wrong, but don't count it against mastery of the topic.
    Reference lists of spelling words, etc provided as a paper handout rather than only posted on the wall
    Put a slip of tracing paper over spelling lists. Half of her repetitions of writing the word can be traced instead of copied. This is helping her handwriting dramatically. The teacher introduced this when she saw DD take her paper to the window to use it as a light box for tracing the words.
    DD came up with something the class adopted: laminate a 100 chart for each kid so it can be drawn on with a dry-erase marker to do math tasks that involve tracking along rows or columns.

    To help with acceptance, the magnifiers, grid paper, and I think even tracing paper were offered to any kid who wanted them (but required for DD). They were popular for less than a week, then the extras went back to the assistive technology closet.

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    I wish the two private gifted schools my ds attended for part of pre-k and k had a clue about visual issues, but they didn't. They didn't understand how it affected his gross/fine motor skills, speech, attentional and sensory issues; why he struggled to play soccer, for instance, for gym and with writing. They also didn't understand how the tracking and visual discrimination impacted his reading and phonics ability. Oy. Ds was in vt then and wore the ambient glasses.

    One of the schools claimed to be the 'visual spatial' school or for those kids, but this equaled with having a very visually stimulating classroom/school and doing a considerable amount of online work. All of this negatively impacted ds because he would get visually overstimulated at a drop of a hat; the school didn't grasp that concept. At all.

    Ds didn't need to be visually 'awakened'. In fact, it was quite the opposite. He couldn't visually filter what was relevant and what wasn't in the schools and kept getting distracted and losing focus. He wanted to take everything in - visually.

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