My bright and verbal child started to show rocky behaviors in preschool. He was invited to leave a wonderful nature-based preschool because the owner could not manage his behaviors; we found a challenging and very academic preschool and that worked successfully for the rest of the year until kindergarten. School from that point, was a roller coaster depending on the educator. Read More
Children with NVLD have spatial deficits, or visual-perceptual deficits. For some this leads to difficulty in math, for others to social problems. The mechanisms underlying these social problems are not well understood. One hypothesis is that spatial and visual-perceptual deficits make it hard for children to interpret social cues. For example, they may misinterpret facial expressions and incorrectly determine that someone is frowning at them when instead the person is looking quizzically at them.
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