I'm starting a new topic brancing out of Zen Scanner's"
"If you follow the neuroscience research that the Eides have identified, this range tends to have ASD on end and Dyslexia on the other end. On the ASD side is a tendency towards focus, serial reasoning, literal thinking which can be mischaracterized as an "auditory learning style" on the Dyslexia side is a tendency towards abstract, wide range system thinking mischaracterized as the "visual-spatial style."
Not to put you on the spot, ZS, but I'm very curious about this.
Have you any knowledge of the Woodcock-Johnson III? It has a subscore of Visual-Auditory learning. While I read from your reply that it sounds like the visual and auditory are sort of in different categories/ends (which is logical) what about this subtest that sort of clusters?
I'm personally interested because my DD has the stong literal-thinking (often presented as more of a problem), serial reasoning, and she can be very focused when interested. However her visual learning is pretty astounding also and seems to catch on to the abstract well and she has dyslexic tendencies for sure, though seem to be managed (with effort and frustration though). Maybe she's middle of the scale? Her WJ-III age equivilant score for that category when she was age 4.5 (and NOT settling in to pre-K) was ">19".
I recently went the Eides website and saw they are not taking any new people right now. I just can't ever seem to find anyone to really help us with her profile.
