And I'll point out that the visual deficit has created a visual spatial gifted child in many, many ways. Imo, ds overcompensated with his deficit and other issues and this created a spatially gifted 2e/pg child.
Very interesting. DS had a brain injury when he was 5 which severely affected his vision with one eye completely unable to track. He had no depth perception. His eye was tracking fully again after about 8 months, but his eyes still won't track together on command. He is very advanced with anything involving spatial ability, like rotating objects. He watched a short tutotorial on SketchUp and then within a couple minutes designed a complicated building, whipping things together with lighting speed (he is now 7). After the TBI, he had to function with severe double vision at all times (whenever his eye wasn't patched) and I often wonder what role that played in his brain development. I read somewhere that people with stereoblindness often turn into good artists.
