The best news about visual processing development is that children can strengthen these skills through play. Even without a formal deficit, all of our children can benefit from playing games that strengthen our visual processing skills.

Visual processing skills are essential cognitive abilities that help children interpret the world around them. These skills form the backbone of learning, influencing tasks from reading and writing to solving math problems and engaging in physical activities.

When we strengthen the brain through rhythm and music, children build the skills they need to succeed in school, relationships, and daily life.

In 2021, I wrote this post for some families in our practice who requested additional Science of Reading Resources. Over the past three years, the conversations in my office with families have broadened. We now discuss not only the importance of oral language, phonemic awareness, phonology, and morphology as the building blocks on which other reading skills develop, but also co-existing conditions, strengths in dyslexia, the Science of Learning, auditory neuroscience, and mor