It was very interesting to see how he had excellent memory for some things, but for visual recall of shapes, he was horrible on immediate, and improved on delayed recall (proving,tester said,that processing goes on but info is not immediately available as would be needed for automatic writing).
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Funny thing when my ds was tested by the optometrist, they thought by his tracking that he was missing words and they showed me the pattern for the typical fast reader vs his. Yet, he was able to repeat back what he read without a skipped word. They concluded that he was contextually reading and filling in the words on his own, and only went back to actually read the words if it didn't make sense. (I suspect this is what smart kids do to compensate for visual issues--- just my suspicion).
Wow, great insights in both cases. Like there is a big pre-processing engine that is continuously evaluating, interpreting, and correcting incoming sensory data. That suspicion clicks for me... though I wonder if it may be the reverse, the brain gets really good at pre-processing to cope with sensory issues and that same mechanism happens to be extremely useful for G.
