CHAT - Assessing Spatial Dysfunction in O&M and the Classroom Ð 2/13/23 From Pamela Halstead to Everyone: Knowing where you are in space. From Erika Fundelius (she/her) to Everyone: Knowing where some is going From Alicia Mendoza, COMS to Everyone: The ability to make mental maps From Ashley Verhaaren to Everyone: Understanding where your body is in space and where objects are in space From Erika Fundelius (she/her) to Everyone: Spatial updating From Jack Mitchell to Host and Panelists: Spatial updating From Amanda Guerrero to Everyone: awareness of what's around you From Natalie Guara to Everyone: What you remember about a room From Alicia Mendoza, COMS to Everyone: Understanding where you are in relation to your surroundings, where things are in relation to each other From Debbie Fussell to Everyone: Can we please get the link for the handouts? From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: TodayÕs handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Thank you for the reminder, Debbie! From Debbie Fussell to Everyone: Thank you! From Sara Kitchen to Everyone: I wonder how this relates to dyslexia in braille readers? From Pamela Halstead to Everyone: So, would someone with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum would have spatial dysfunction? From Angie Ridge to Everyone: My O&M students who are in dyslexia struggle with spatial processing. From Tracie Quinn to Everyone: Difficulty with understanding tactile graphics, math graphics and charts From Mindy Meadows to Everyone: Do you this issue in people who havr ONH From Kay Pruett to Everyone: @Sara Kitchen, in my experience teaching visually impaired students with dyslexia for over a decade, IÕve not seen a lot of correlation between dyslexia which is based in a weakness in phonemic awareness and spatial dysfunction. From Kay Pruett to Everyone: I have seen students with spatial difficulties in reading braille as well. From Cynthia Reilly to Everyone: Is anyone else having difficulty with the handout link? From Tracie Quinn to Everyone: I was able to open it From Shay Utley to Everyone: I was able to open the handouts. From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: TodayÕs handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour From Jack Mitchell to Everyone: Do the assessments we're going to talk about let us distinguish with spatial dysfunction and poor concept development related to spatial relations? From Cynthia Reilly to Everyone: Typed it in and it worked! ty From Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: TodayÕs handout: https://tsbvi.live/coffeehour From Jack Mitchell to Everyone: Is it always that obvious a difference? From Jack Mitchell to Everyone: And in the example, he was able to describe the shape, but couldn't make any progress towards reconstructing it From Alicia Mendoza, COMS to Everyone: What about using language to accompany the tracing, e.g., "up, left, up, right, up" vs numbers? From Alicia Mendoza, COMS to Everyone: directional language From Angela Modisett to Everyone: I had the same thought Alicia... From Angela Pozzuoli Tabb to Everyone: Thank you!