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24 Underlying Processing Skills that PACE Works On
- Auditory Processing : to process sounds. The major
underlying skill needed to learn to read and spell.
- Auditory Discrimination: to hear differences in sounds such
as loudness, pitch, duration, and phonemes.
- Auditory Segmenting: to break apart words into their
separate sounds.
- Auditory Blending: to blend individual sounds to form
words.
- Auditory Analysis: to determine the number, sequence, and
which sounds are within a word.
- Auditory- Visual Association: to be able to link a sound
with an image.
- Comprehension: to understand words and concepts.
- Divided Attention: to attend to and handle two or more
tasks at one time. Such as: taking notes while listening, carrying totals while
adding the next column. Required for handling tasks quickly as well as handling
complex tasks.
- Logic and Reasoning: to reason, plan, and think.
- Long Term Memory: to retrieve past information
- Math Computations: to do math calculations such as adding,
subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
- Processing Speed: the speed which the brain processes
information.
- Saccadic Fixation: to move the eyes accurately and quickly
from one point to another.
- Selective Attention: to stay on task even when distraction
is present.
- Sensory-Motor Integration: to have the sensory skills work
well with the motor skills - such as eye-hand coordination
- Sequential Processing: to process chunks of information
that are received one after another
- Simultaneous Processing: to process chunks of information
that are received all at once
- Sustained Attention: to be able to stay on task.
- Visual Discrimination: to see differences in size, color,
shape, distance, and orientation of objects.
- Visual Processing: to process and make use of visual
images.
- Visual Manipulation: to flip, rotate, move, change color,
etc. objects and images in one's mind
- Visualization: to create mental images or pictures.
- Visual Span: to see more/wider in a single look.
- Working Memory: Holding information in your memory while
deciding what to do with it.
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