Learning Difficulties and Eye Movements What’s the Connection
Most people with learning difficulties are not only very ungrounded, but also very distractible. This distractibility is exactly where the connection between eye movements and learning difficulties lies. Have you ever asked a person with, for example, trouble with reading comprehension how she saw a page of text when presented to himher How did this person see the page of text in hisher imagination What did the text do Did it move In what way Or here’s another question did this person see only one screen in their mind’s eye, or did she see several screens – with different action on each of the screens And we can go even further with questioning when you asked this person to see the page of text in front of himher, did she actually see it or did she try to hear or feelit first Or did she try to do the seeing, hearing, and feeling all at once – and then blanked out with confusion and overwhelm
Our eye movements, pictured here, are unconscious and we all display them when processing information from around us in different sensory channels. The next time you think of observing the eyes of someone you’re having a conversation with, you’ll clearly see how their eyes move
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