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My DS7 doesn't like puzzles, and the psychologist who tested her said that was a weakness we should work on as she tends to give up if she doesn't see the answer immediately. She also recommended books where you have to look for something hidden. However, the I Spy books, Hidden Pictures books etc. were not interesting to her at all. I haven't tried Where's Waldo yet.
Things she does like to do that may or may not be helpful in this area- crochet, friendship bracelets, rainbow loom, Mindcraft, origami. Does anyone have any recommendations for how to work on this for her? She still did 99% on the PCI but the psychologist said we should start working on puzzles with her but I'm not sure how to do that.
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Does she like board games? If so, try Ricochet Robots.
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Puzzles? Like in lots of pieces that are assembled into a picture? Or as in riddles and logic challenges and such?
If it is riddles, etc. then it seems to me the answer wouldn't be in more practice.
If everything comes to you in a flash, the problem with challenges is that you've never learned how to develop tactics and strategies to subdivide and solve differently. So, instead of accidentally possibly expanding the depth of her flashes through repetition of such tasks, try talking out loud with her through methods of analysis, sub-dividing problems, recognizing themes and patterns in puzzles would be much better than just doing more of them.
The answer is the riddle: How can you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
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It sounds like you are talking about attention to visual detail and visual search, which is slightly different from construction puzzles. From what you've said, she seems to already enjoy hands-on visual-spatial and patterning activities, but ones where she generates the pattern, rather than deciphers someone else's pattern. Perhaps she is better at deductive reasoning than inductive reasoning? If it is a visual search issue, then you may have to find something that she is interested in searching for--perhaps in the real world, rather than in an artificial puzzle. If it is inductive reasoning, perhaps mystery-type puzzles--Encyclopedia Brown, 5-minute mysteries, etc--may interest her more, with their storylines and narrative context.
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If it's visual you're after - does she like mazes? If it is visual, let us know - there might be a few things we've used in vision therapy exercises that would help and might be fun  polarbear
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Maybe something like bird watching, spotting specific plants in nature, or similar that uses the same skills from I Spy...
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