- Rodgers School
- Sensory
- Vision
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VISIONStrategies to reduce sensitivity to light or help with visual distractions:
- Change the lighting in the home environment: lamp lighting is less visually stressful than overhead lighting. Try to keep lights dimmed, too.
- At school or in other buildings, wear lightly tinted sunglasses or dark if necessary.
- Wear sunglasses or a baseball cap outdoors
- To reduce visual distractions, create a barrier such as a cardboard study carrel when reading and writing
- Reduce clutter and a "busy" room appearance
- Certain wall paint colors help in reducing visual stress
- School worksheets should include as much white space as possible; if necessary, have information printed on more pages to increase white space
- Reduce the amount of color used on written materials or run through a copier for a black and white version
Strategies to increase visual attentiveness (eye-contact, tracking, attention to detail)- Play "flashlight tag" in a darkened room while on your back. Chase each others' flashlight beams
- Play catch with slow moving objects: balloons, Gertie balls, scarves
- Pencil/paper mazes, hidden pictures, find the difference picture puzzles
- Fill a shoe box with small items: locate specific items within this busy box
- Play "guess what I see" games: describe an item in the room by its color, size, shape, what it's used for, etc
- School writing paper: use dark lines (run through copier to make darker if needed) for writing on
- Highlight writing lines in yellow
- Worksheets should be of high contrast, lots of white space and clear of spots, smudges, etc
- When coloring, teach child to tract around the lines of the design first and then color it in
Last Modified on June 23, 2014