This processing ability allows you to integrate information with your other senses or with other visual information.

Children with poor visual integration skills have a difficult time on written assignments and tests, erase excessively, show poor penmanship, and do not do well when copying down information.  These same children often seem to perform better when answering aloud and can verbalize that they know the material they are being tested on, but seem to test poorly on that same material when writing is required. Not a good thing when you are taking standardized tests.

• Signs & Symptoms:
• Sloppy writing or drawing skills 
• Can't stay on or in the lines
• Erases excessively
• Poor organization
• Does not recognize mistakes
• Close working distance
• Poor posture when writing
• Excessive or inadequate pencil grip
• Trouble aligning numbers in columns for math problems
• Can't get answers on paper
• Tests poorly even if they know the subject