| Visual |
| Overreactive |
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Avoider |
| Can't sleep if room isn't completely dark. |
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Avoids bright lights, sunlight. |
| Watches everyone when they move around. |
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Covers eyes in lighted room. |
| Sensitive to bright lights; will squint, cover eyes, cry and/or get headaches from the light. |
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Demands to wear sunglasses indoors. |
| Has difficulty keeping eyes focused on task/activity he/she is working on for an appropriate amount of time. |
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Covers part of the page when reading. |
| Easily distracted by other visual stimuli in the room; i.e., movement, decorations, toys, windows, doorways etc. |
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Turns opposite direction from where teacher is lecturing. |
| Has difficulty in bright colorful rooms or a dimly lit room. |
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Gives no eye contact or looks beyond person’s face. |
| Rubs his/her eyes, has watery eyes or gets headaches after reading or watching TV. |
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Avoids eye contact. |
| Enjoys playing in the dark. |
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| Visual |
| Underreactive |
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Seeking |
| Is the last to notice when a person enters the room, if they notice at all. |
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May love or crave bright lights. |
| Trouble locating desired object on shelf, in drawer. |
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May frequently stare at bright or spinning lights. |
| May fail to recognize a sight that most would find alerting or strong. |
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Need a lot of light in a room to concentrate or focus, |
| Misjudges spatial relationships so bumps into people or things. |
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Stares at spinning objects. |
| Looses place when reading. |
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Spins their own bodies. |
| Has difficulty telling the difference between similar printed letters or figures; i.e., p & q, b & d, + and x, or square and rectangle. |
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| Has a hard time seeing the "big picture"; i.e., focuses on the details or patterns within the picture. |
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| Has difficulty locating items among other items; i.e., papers on a desk, clothes in a drawer, items on a grocery shelf, or toys in a bin/toy box. |
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| Often loses place when copying from a book or the chalkboard. |
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| Difficulty controlling eye movement to track and follow moving objects. |
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| Has difficulty telling the difference between different colors, shapes, and sizes. |
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| Often loses his/her place while reading or doing math problems. |
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| Makes reversals in words or letters when copying, or reads words backwards; i.e., "was" for "saw" and "no" for "on" after first grade. |
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| Complains about "seeing double". |
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| Difficulty finding differences in pictures, words, symbols, or objects. |
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| Difficulty with consistent spacing and size of letters during writing and/or lining up numbers in math problems. |
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| Difficulty with jigsaw puzzles, copying shapes, and/or cutting/tracing along a line. |
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| Tends to write at a slant (up or down hill) on a page. |
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| Confuses left and right. |
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| Fatigues easily with schoolwork. |
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| Difficulty judging spatial relationships in the environment; i.e., bumps into objects/people or missteps on curbs and stairs. |
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| Visual |
| Poor Perception and/or Discrimination |
| Inability to avoid objects. |
| Lacks personal space and boundaries. |
| Disorganized possessions. |
| Difficulty holding eye contact. |
| Difficulty with depth perception. |
| Poor attention to visual detail. |
| Poor handwriting. |
| May avoid reading, writing and drawing. |
| Has difficulty with building and doing puzzles. |
| Gets lost easily. |
| Difficulty recognising and drawing letters, numbers and shapes. |
| Unable to plan a path around objects guided by vision although not visually impaired. |
