An awareness of Position in Space is important for recognizing letters.

• In particular, a strong awareness of position in space is critical to the visual decoding process for linguistic symbols.

• For example, how we interpret the following depends on how we perceive their position in space like...

• "W-M-E" and "N-Z,"

• or "u-n-c," and

• "d-b-g-p-q"

• Can you imagine, if you had a diminished awareness of position in space, how difficult it would be to learn to recognize a word like "dad" that might look like "pad" or "bad" or "gad" or "bag" or "gag" or "gab" or many other possibilities.

• What a nightmare, and yet there are many children with just this problem who are trying to learn to read with minimal success and maximal frustration. Notice too, that taken alone, itâs a problem in organization, (perception) and not retrieval (dyslexia)

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