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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!

SamCurt
07-22-07, 12:11 PM
Since I can't edit posts now, now I added some more things the psychologist mentioned then:

She mentioned that is visual processing is slower than average (she showed the discrepancy in two subtests of my WAIS-III which I did 2 months ago; I did the same test marginally when I did it visually but quite off-scale when I did it audibly.) which made my reading difficult when visual input began to be long (I don't mean dyslexia here; I have not that kind of problem). She even advised me from doing jobs that are too graphic-intense. (Would I even do so? I'm clueless about graphics.)

Michiko74
07-23-07, 05:42 AM
I don't get the visual attention term either, but oh yeah to the reading and tired bit. Without my medication, reading novels and textbooks will knock the wind right out of me. Retaining information is pretty darn difficult too.