Visual+Comprehension+Difficulties+and+Glogster

Glogster is an interactive tool that can help people with visual comprehension difficulties.
“A visual processing, or perceptual, disorder refers to a hindered ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes. This is different from problems involving sight or sharpness of vision. Difficulties with visual processing affect how visual information is interpreted, or processed by the brain.” []

A person who has visual comprehension problems may not “see” objects like others would. Even though they can see the object with clarity, they cannot interpret what that object may be. “For these people, a moving, talking person in a video may be easier to identify and mentally process than a static image of a person in a photograph. Video and multimedia, accompanied with narration, may be the best way to communicate to these individuals.” []

Glogster is one tool that can be use to assist people with visual comprehension problems. This tool is a “graphic log” and has the ability to use color, text, video, pictures, audio and other multimedia to present information. Even some of the clip art is animated. People with visual comprehension difficulties need extra clues such as animation or video to decipher what an object is. Some people with visual comprehension problems need to stay focused so as not to get overwhelmed. When creating a “glog”, you can make it as intricate or simple as needed. If a student needs to concentrate on just one artifact to stay focused, you may use links to go to a different page, or enlarge the video so that is the only thing the student sees at a time.

There are many excellent tools available to help people with visual comprehension. Glogster is one that brings all the multimedia into one application and with ease of use.