Several years ago, I took a cognitive test battery because I was feeling that my brain was starting to encounter problems with memory and information processing. The results showed that my major ...

Difficulty with visual-spatial processing can make it hard for those with NVLD to respect other people’s personal space. Plus, their challenges with pattern recognition give them trouble ...

Gus Walz, the 17-year-old son of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has nonverbal learning disorder. He's one of millions of American kids with NVLD, which has been described as the opposite of dyslexia.

Several years ago, I took a cognitive test battery because I was feeling that my brain was starting to encounter problems with memory and information processing. The results showed that my major ...

The name of this neurodevelopmental disorder may be part of the problem: children with NVLD are not nonverbal, as the name suggests, and have no difficulty reading. Instead, children with NVLD have ...

Esther Heerema, MSW January 30, 2015 at 9:02 AM·4 min read Visuospatial Refers to Vision and Perception Skills Thinkstock Images Collection / Stockbyte / Getty Images ...