Imagine looking at your friend’s face and, within seconds, watching it change. The skin darkens, ears stretch into sharp ...

Many kids are suffering from visual processing disorder, and it’s keeping a countless number of undiagnosed children from being able to read.

The first condition is called visual processing disorder or VPD. It's a neurological condition that makes it difficult for the brain to interpret what it sees.

Do sensory processing disorders affect academics? The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding yes.

There are a long list of visual problems that can impact a child's academic success and may require this kind of therapy including accommodation dysfunction, amblyopia and oculomotor dysfunction.

A woman with a rare neurological disorder experiences a bizarre visual distortion that makes human faces appear dragon-like. Doctors explain that the condition—known as prosopometamorphopsia—is linked ...

* Treatments vary but may include medications and therapies customized to each person's symptoms and underlying cause ...

Some researchers believe dyslexia is a visual processing disorder at its core because a brain pathway involved in processing motion is also altered in dyslexia. Still, a debate rages over whether ...

First study combining multiple new methods to understand visual processing and brain activity in dyslexia could improve understanding of which brain processes are affected by the condition, and ...

"So, I work with a specialist and that's one of the things that's helping me build confidence in myself," she explained. One big misconception is dyslexia is strictly a visual processing disorder.

The first way that sensory processing disorders affects academics is simply in the child’s ability (or inability) to sit still when there is a plethora of sensory information in a classroom.