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.
