Table of Contents

Contents
 
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface

Chapter 1: How to Use This Book
Chapter 2: The Complexity of Reading
Chapter 3: Eye Movements and Reading
Chapter 4: Ocular Motor
OM-1: Colored Overlays
OM-2: Figure Ground
OM-3 :Static Fixation
OM-4: Line Counting
OM-5: Fixation Activities
OM-6: Four Corner Fixation
OM-7: Pencil Pursuits
OM-8: Number Pursuits
OM-9: Global Scanning
OM-10: Letter Search
OM-11: Words in Words
OM-12: Visual Scanning
OM-13: Yardstick Fixations
OM-14: Pencils With Numbers
OM-15: String Reading
OM-16: Near-Far Letter Naming
OM-17: Baseball Fixations
OM-18: Spatial Attention
OM-19: Peripheral Training
OM-20: Marsden Ball
OM-21: VMC Bat
OM-22: Brock String
OM-23: Pursuit Reading
OM-24: Dictionary Training
OM-25: Board-Book Reading
OM-26: Orthography Activities
Chapter 5: Gross Motor
GM-1: One Foot Hop
GM-2: Stepping Stones
GM-3: Heel and Toe Rock
GM-4: Pattern Hopping
GM-5: Gross Motor Balance Sequencing
GM-6: Foot Tapping
GM-7: Bean Bag Basketball
GM-8: Crawling Activities
GM-9: Marine Crawl
GM-10: Creeping Activities
GM-11: Colored Squares
GM-12: Head Tilt
GM-13: Eight Square Bouncing
GM-14: Letter Tracking and Bouncing a Ball
GM-15: Activities for Ball Bouncing
GM-16: Beanbag Activities
GM-17: Balance Board on Hands and Knees
GM-18: VMC Bat While Balancing
GM-19: Tape Walking
GM-20: Walking Rail / Balance Beam
GM-21: Trampoline
GM-22: Jump Rope Activities
GM-23: Rhythm
GM-24: Rhythm - 2
GM-25: Finger to Thumb
GM-26: Dual - Task
GM-27: Rhyme/Sound Categorization
GM-28: Mental Rotations
GM-29: Visual Imagery
Chapter 6: Visual Motor Perception
VMP-1: Bean Counting
VMP-2: Nuts and Bolts
VMP-3: Line Drawing
VMP-4: Flashlight Activities
VMP-5: Angles and Oblique Lines
VMP-6: Proximal and Distal Kinesthetic Reinforcement
VMP-7: Motor Planning
VMP-8: Kinesthesia
VMP-9: Finish the Designs
VMP-10: Geoboards
VMP-11: Dot Pattern Designs
VMP-12: Can You Imagine a Shape?
VMP-13: Matchsticks
VMP-14: Lines and Shapes
VMP-15: Round Paper Drawings
VMP-16: Occluded Vision Copying
VMP-17: Triangle and Square
VMP-18: Bimanual Coordination
VMP-19: Continuity
VMP-20: Points and Continuity
VMP-21: Handwriting Development
VMP-22: Letter Size Spelling
VMP-23: Frequently Difficult Letters
VMP-24: Pencil Grip Relaxation
VMP-25: Mirror Image Activities
VMP-26: Eye-Hand and Fine Motor Control
VMP-27: Space Matching
VMP-28: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
VMP-29: Spatial Relationships
VMP-30: The Relationship of "Surrounding"
VMP-31: Linear and Circular Order
VMP-32: Knots VMP-33 Vectors
Chapter 7: Visual Memory
VM-1: Identifying Digit Span
VM-2: Clock Memory Game
VM-3: Auditory Span
VM-4: Color Sequencing
VM-5: Sequence Memory Skills
VM-6: Rhythm
VM-7: Hand Sequencing
VM-8: Digit Span/Spatial Task
VM-9: Sentence Endings
VM-10: Daily Memories
VM-11: Motor Sequencing
VM-12: Upper and Lower Case
VM-13: Semantic Association
VM-14: Chunking
VM-15: Number Scans and Math
VM-16: Colors for Directions
VM-17: Scan Memory
VM-18: Visual Spatial Memory
VM-19: Initial Blends
VM-20: Sign Language Alphabet
VM-21: Word List/Two Second Span
VM-22: Consonants
VM-23: Verb Generation
VM-24: Grid Dots
VM-25: Word Shapes A VM-26 Dual Task
VM-27: Word Shapes B
Chapter 8: Laterality &BR

About the Author

Kenneth A. Lane, OD is a doctor of optometry and a fellow with the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. Since his first book, Reversal Errors: Theories and Therapy Procedures, in 1988, Dr. Lane has published Developing Your Child for Success, and a series of workbooks that deal with eye tracking and perception. He started the Lane Learning Center to help learning-disabled children in 1980. Visual Attention in Children: Theories and Activities is the result of 3 years of research. Dr. Lane lives with his wife, Janet, in north Texas and spends his leisure time in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Reviews

"Professionals who are looking for a way to assess and address a variety of fine motor and visual perception deficiencies will welcome this workbook into their practices. The book will be of help to parents and teachers as well."— Savannah Jones, Review Editor, SirReadaLot.org  "...if you are in need of suggested activities and possible ways of developing interventions, this text can serve as a starting point."

— Leonard G. Trujillo, PhD, OTR/L, East Carolina University Occupational Therapy in Healthcare