What is a Visual Processing Disorder?

A Visual Processing Disorder is the inability to properly analyze and interpret incoming visual information, causing problems in sustained attention, reading, writing, mathematics, visual memory and/or fatigue. The student’s visual acuity is intact or has been corrected through corrective lenses. There are three components to a Visual Processing Disorder: (1) Visual Gathering Skills, (2) Visual Motor Integration Skills, and (3) Visual Perceptual Skills. I believe that through the power of neuroplasticity, students can overcome this disorder.