FREE Worksheets

Printable worksheets for training visual, auditory, and spatial skills — plus symptom training for dyslexia and dyscalculia.

Visual Skills
Visual Recognition Visual Recognition (276 pages) Visual Memory Visual Memory (46 pages) Visual Sequencing Visual Sequencing (89 pages)
Auditory Skills
Auditory Recognition Auditory Recognition (121 pages) Auditory Memory Auditory Memory (20 pages) Auditory Sequencing Auditory Sequencing (20 pages)
Spatial & Body Skills
Spatial Orientation Spatial Orientation (12 pages) Body Perception Body Perception (7 pages)
Training Programs
Symptom Training Dyslexia (467 pages) Symptom Training Dyscalculia (14 pages) Attention Training Attention (3 pages)
Additional Resources
Create Your Own Worksheet (51 pages) Word Formulation (228 pages) Dictionary (239 pages)

How does one determine which areas should be trained?

If the child displays more than one deficiency in the following areas, then these areas of sensory perception should be trained:

Visual Recognition

  • Basic essentials cannot be understood from what is seen
  • Visually similar things are not recognized as different
  • Distinguishing important information from a multitude of stimuli is unsuccessful
  • Difficulties with distinguishing between colors and shapes
  • Writing and recognition of letters is difficult
  • Handwriting is untidy and difficult to read
  • Confusion between letters which are different in placement (d/b, u/n)
  • The ability to distinguish between visually similar letters, symbols, and numbers (h-k, a-o, 7-4, 6-5) is severely lacking
  • Inverted reading or writing of numbers, for example 6 and 9
  • Increasingly occurring copy errors
  • Difficulties grasping amounts
  • Omission of letters or numbers
  • Difficulties with quantities over ten
  • Difficulties with compound arithmetic problems

Visual Memory

  • Visual information is not retained
  • Difficulties in recognizing colors, shapes, images, patterns, and objects
  • Memorization of word images does not succeed: words are often written properly ten times, then incorrectly again
  • Difficulties with drawing patterns from memory
  • Transposition of letters a-e-o, h-k, f-t, m-n
  • The child cannot find his place in the text when reading
  • Frequently checking the pattern while copying
  • The writing is angular, curvatures and lengths are different

Visual Sequencing

  • Visual sequences cannot be perceived properly
  • Difficulties with grasping the succession of letters when reading
  • Reversing the sequence of letters when reading and writing
  • Letters or syllables are missing, transposed or added
  • Halting, slow reading
  • Switching the word order when writing
  • Omission of letters, endings or words when writing
  • Duplication of letters
  • Uneven line spacing and letter spacing
  • Incorrect sequencing of numbers, omission of digits
  • Slow learning of basic arithmetic skills

Auditory Recognition

  • The basics of the sounds heard cannot be grasped
  • The ability to distinguish whether sounds are the same or not is severely lacking
  • A sound is matched with the wrong letter
  • Inability to distinguish between similarly sounding noises, words or numbers
  • Ability to distinguish between vocalized and non-vocalized consonants is severely lacking: g-k, b-p, d-t, s-z, f-v
  • Transposition of elongation and sharpening
  • Difficulties repeating unfamiliar words
  • Difficulties transcribing a series of spoken words

Auditory Memory

  • Cannot remember and repeat what was heard
  • Frequent questions when reciting
  • Omissions or additions of letters, syllables or words
  • Severe difficulty understanding what was heard
  • Errors with b/p, d/t, g/k
  • Poor vocabulary, frequent repetitions of words
  • Omission of parts of verbally assigned arithmetic problems

Auditory Sequencing

  • Auditory sequences are not perceived correctly
  • Muddled explanations, loses the thread easily
  • Difficulties with correct word order in sentences
  • Distraction by minor details when telling a story
  • Halting, broken speech with unharmonious breathing

Spatial Orientation

  • Spatial perception is not judged correctly
  • Ability to judge spatial and temporal measures (distances, amounts, units) is severely lacking
  • Difficulties orienting oneself in an unfamiliar environment
  • Difficulties learning to tell time
  • Building to a pattern or blueprint is unsuccessful
  • Uneven line spacing; writing outside the margins
  • Losing the line when reading
  • Inverted writing (right to left instead of left to right)
  • Transposition of letters when distinguishing their position: b-d, b-p
  • Numbers are transposed: 6-9, 36-63

Body Perception

  • Difficulties orienting oneself to one’s own body
  • Confusion between right-left, above-below, behind-before

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