Visual Sequencing Difficulties

The child who is unable to retain the visual sequence in short-term memory long enough to be able to recall it or who, because of a lack of left-to-right directional tracking with the eyes, misperceives the order in which the letters appear in the words, will read them incorrectly. For example reading /god/ for /dog/, /was/ for /saw/, /nap/ for /pan/, etc. This is not to suggest that the sequencing disruption affects only the first and last consonants. The sequencing disruption can take place in any position. For example, the word /story/ could be read as /stroy/, /tow/ as /two/, /kitchen/ as /chicken/, etc.

In compound words, entire syllables could be reversed: for instance /yardstick/ read as /stickyard/, /horseshoe/ as /shoehorse/, etc. The learning disabled show an abnormal saccadic pattern.

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