SamCurt
07-18-07, 02:46 PM
Even I have been diagnosed for some time (but without medication), today the psychologist who has been following me right now has decided to give me some test related to attention, following my WAIS-III showing my processing speed having a noticeable dip.
The result is, my auditory attention and working memory is okay, if not above average, and so is my gross attention, but my visual attention is pretty bad. By "visual attention" she referred to the results of the following two tests:
Crossing balloons in a sea of balls, and vice versa.
Reading the colours on cards, the first with colour balls, the second with coloured random words, and the third with coloured names of colour (but the word and the colour do not correspond).
which showed me that having problems processing visual things can be "tiring" to read. She even warned me against dealing with things that are too graphic-focused.
I don't understand what she meant by "visual attention" here, but I agree that I have a hard time reading, even I am a bookworm-- I always lose track in long novels, and got bored out when reading textbooks. I wonder if she actually mean some visual processing disorder or something?
Plus, can somebody give tips on how to be an auditory learner? Thanks!
The result is, my auditory attention and working memory is okay, if not above average, and so is my gross attention, but my visual attention is pretty bad. By "visual attention" she referred to the results of the following two tests:
Crossing balloons in a sea of balls, and vice versa.
Reading the colours on cards, the first with colour balls, the second with coloured random words, and the third with coloured names of colour (but the word and the colour do not correspond).
which showed me that having problems processing visual things can be "tiring" to read. She even warned me against dealing with things that are too graphic-focused.
I don't understand what she meant by "visual attention" here, but I agree that I have a hard time reading, even I am a bookworm-- I always lose track in long novels, and got bored out when reading textbooks. I wonder if she actually mean some visual processing disorder or something?
Plus, can somebody give tips on how to be an auditory learner? Thanks!