Gv includes the ability to generate, store, retrieve, and transform visual images, as well as maintaining spatial orientation with regard to objects that change or move through space.
Gv impacts the development of the following skills:
Ways to improve Gv functioning:
Academic strategies to try if a student is weak in Gv:
Gv impacts the development of the following skills:
- Some contribution to early reading skills, such as letter identification, but generally does not strongly predict academic success in any area
- Narrow abilities subsumed within Gv may be better predictors of specific academic skills, such as within geometry, but this has not been widely studied.
Ways to improve Gv functioning:
- Games and puzzles, including blocks, Legos, jigsaw puzzles, etc.
- Try some of these games
- More about visual processing disorders
Academic strategies to try if a student is weak in Gv:
- Letter recognition strategies
- Reduce visual clutter on worksheets or use a plain sheet of paper to cover areas of the page so the student can focus on one part at a time.
- Use a slip of paper, a ruler, or other object to cover lines of text beneath the line the student is reading.
- Writing paper with raised lines