Integration Disability
Integration Disabilities (Sorting Information): All of the information recorded in the brain has to be placed in sequence and understood. The ADD child might have difficulty in either area. For some the problems are greater with auditory inputs, for others visual inputs.
Once the information coming into the brain is registered, it has to be understood. At least two steps are required to do this: sequencing and abstraction.
Suppose that your brain recorded the following three graphic symbols: d, o, g. No problems with visual perception. But to make sense of the perception, you have to place the symbols in the right order, or sequence. Is it d-o-g, or g-o-d, or d-g-o, or what? Then you have to infer meaning from the context in which the word is used, both a general meaning and a specific meaning. For example, the dog and your dog have very different meanings. The ability to draw general applications from specific words and to attach subtle shading to the basic meanings of words is referred to as "abstract thinking."
The process of integrating input, of understanding what your brain has recorded, thus requires both sequencing and abstraction. Your child might have a disability in one area or the other, or both. A child who has difficulty sequencing what comes in from the eyes is said to have a visual sequencing disability. So, too, the child might have difficulty with visual abstraction or auditory abstraction.
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