…Page’s father asked when he brought her to us.
He had been the main one responsible for listening to her read her readers after school, and he was at a complete loss to understand why she couldn’t sit still and often needed to read lying upside down, and how she could trip over the same easy word 3 times on the same page.
When we looked at the page in question, we realised that the word was in 3 different places in the sentences in which it appeared. The first time was at the start of the sentence, the second time in the middle of the sentence, while the last one was at the end of the sentence. When we asked Page about this, she replied that she thought that they looked like different words – and that she sometimes needed to move around so she could see it properly.
Page’s experience of Visual Processing Disorder made the same word look different depending on whatever else was around it. After she was assessed and got her glasses, she found that the same word looked the same – no matter where it was.
Now she didn’t need to fidget and move around all the time just to read. But reading lying upside down was still kind of fun anyway…