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What was the assessment? Was it about lots of different things and you are just picking up on the good visual memory? Sometimes our children can have very 'spiky' profiles on tests, where they perform very badly in some areas and very well on others.One of my children has great visual memory and I think it's because she was stuck in her cot for so long with nothing to do, so she has developed his characteristic, while others remained dormant for lack of use.Some schools will use the NLP ways of learning styles - visual, auditory and kinesthetic (my daughter's primary school did this in year 6) but others don't and I doubt that a school would do it for one child, especially if there is no statement making them do it.But it could be that good visual memory is just one of those things that has cropped up as being a strength for your child - it doesn't necessarily mean that it should direct his teaching going forward. My daughter had tests done and she showed up as being very strong in some areas and weak in others, but it was all part and parcel of the bigger picture if you see what I mean. It was just as important for us to address her weaknesses as her strengths. But we had a list of recommendations from the ed psych for school to implement - do you have anything like this?Visual memory sounds like something which could be used e.g. at home to help him as presumably he is good at rote learning? They don't really do that in school these days. My daughter is the complete opposite I'm afraid so I can't really help with strategies.

My ED has poor verbal processing and working memory, - her strength is visual.It was recommended to my ED school that she is left with bullet point instructions on her desk for her to follow.

Flosskirk, it was "The Gardner Test of Visual perceptual Skills (non motor)" Scores wereVisual discrimination 75 percentileVisual Memory 98 percentileVisual spatial relationships 63 percentileVisual form constancy 91 percentileVisual sequential memory 63 percentileVisual Figure Ground 37 percentileVisual Closure 37 percentileS

His maths was always his strong point but he did not make any improvement in Yr 3 and 4, particularly in year 4 he had a very bad year all round with behaviour issues etc and was diagnosed with ADHD last oct and now on meds and since being on them his Class Teachers have said he is a different boy, he has improved very much this year in Maths (yr 5) but has slipped back to 4C from 4b by a recent test and only by a couple of Marks, his Maths teacher said he was slow to learn the things there was no particular thing that let him down and overnight I just thought maybe it was how he was beig taught as I have never found him slow to learn other than fine motor skills related to his Dyspraxia.

TinkerbellWas this test just done in isolation? Who did it? Why did they run the tests?I am just asking because I do think that results like these are usually part of a bigger picture. I had my daughter seen by an OT and she looked at her visual perception (and she had a very spiky profile with very high results for some things and very low ones for other things) but she also looked at lots of other issues as well. So, have they looked at other things or just the visual perceptual skills? I suspect that it would be more interesting to support him in the areas he found difficult - do you understand what the 'visual figure ground' and 'visual closure' results mean? They are low but how do they impact his learning?

Hi Flosskirk,He was referred to the Occupational Therapy for issues re his dyspraxia (fine motor skils) and she thought it would be a good idea to check "Test Visual Perceptual Skills" it was done at school on his own by a Generic Therapy Assistant.No I don't really understand the 2 things he scored lowest on.S

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Ok Flosskirk,Not received yet.S

Just sent it. I have also found what visual closure means:Measures the ability to recognise a stimulus figure when it has been incompletely drawn. Problems here can mean:difficulty breaking up words into syllables visuallydifficulty decoding unfamiliar words when readingdifficulty combining phonic combinations to build a wordomits parts of computation when copying from the boarddoes not fully complete questionnairesstruggles with fractionsomits the ends of words in reading and writingdoes not read full exam questionFigure ground problems can include:looses place when copying from the blackboarddifficulty keeping place in reading or number workskips secions when working on an exerciseunable to find objects that are right under their nosedifficulty solving mazesdistractible and disorganisedBut your son is average so it's probably not a huge problem

Thank you for that also, Flosskirk.S