Impulsivity is described as acting before thinking. This can cause behavioral problems, such as impulsivity and difficulty taking turns. The world goes too slowly for him and he goes too fast for everyone else. Not only does he have more time he has greater strength and stamina. The child whose internal clock chronically moves faster lives two or three minutes while others are living only one. When a person’s perception of time shifts or changes, his physical strength and stamina change. He got disoriented, could no longer see or hear the task, shifted his attention to something else in order to reorient, and never got back to finishing the task. Often, the child can stop the perceptual distortions and regain a sense of control by shifting his attention to something else. Since his vision is also distorted, the child does not see the task at hand correctly or consistently, so he makes mistakes. He thinks he is doing what was asked, but others see him as exhibiting opposition, or acting without thinking. So of course he responds inappropriately. Distorted Perceptions of Sound and Vision.Ī child who is experiencing distortions in sound either does not hear what people say to him, or hears their words inaccurately. a reversal of balance and movement senses.Īs we look at each experience in turn, we see how disorientation leads to behaviors associated with ADHD, inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity.distortions in visual and auditory perceptions.Why Disorientation Leads to Socially Unacceptable Behavior.Ī child who is disoriented experiences the following problems: But without the sense of time, we can never progress to understanding sequence or order. If we have time and sequence, we will also develop an inherent sense of order as opposed to disorder. That is, we understand the way things follow each other one after another. With an inherent sense of time, we will also develop an inherent sense of sequence. But the disorienting child doesn’t experience the passage of time uniformly, and so does not develop an inherent sense of the passage of time at all, even as a teenager or adult. Most children have an awareness of the passage of time by age five by age seven, they can sense the passage of five minutes. A person who experiences time uniformly can develop an inherent sense of how long it takes a minute to go by. A minute can be a very long time or very short- but it is never the same. Thus, the child never learns the concept of consequence.Īdditionally, the child is also experiencing a distorted sense of time. ![]() Cause and effect do not exist in the disorienting child’s imaginary, alternate reality world. A person who is disoriented experiences a reality that is not being experienced by others-a false, or alternate, reality.īecause of their frequent disorientation, many dyslexic or ADHD individuals do not learn the basic lessons of life. When disorientation occurs, perception becomes distorted. Reality, then, is what we perceive it to be. The way we realize an experience is that we perceive it. What we accept as reality is what we experience. The dyslexic or ADHD child uses disorientation for entertainment he may be disoriented for hours on end creating the imaginary world he plays in. ![]() □ Listen How Disorientation Undermines Conceptual Understanding.ĭisorientation and distorted perceptions do more than create symptoms of dyslexia. Excerpted from The Dyslexic Reader, Issue 11. © 1996, 1997.
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