The following publications can be found at http://www.mcmonniesboneham.optom.com.aux
• Little Kim’s Left and Right Book (C.W. McMonnies; Superior Educational Publications, 1992, Sydney, Australia).* A very appealing picture book for preschoolers.
• A Practical Guide for Remedial Approaches to Left/Right Confusion and Reversals (C.W. McMonnies; Superior Educational Publications, 1991, Sydney, Australia).
• Overcoming Left/Right Confusion and Reversals: A Classroom Approach (C.W. McMonnies; Superior Educational Publications, 1992, Sydney, Australia). Group and individual remediation exercises for older children. The 18 remedial procedures follow a developmental sequence, starting with body awareness of oneself, which is used as a basis for acquiring the ability to project that internal awareness into space (directionality). The aim is to provide variety to activities that will establish an internal/automatic/reflex/somatesthetic awareness of right and left that does not depend on external cues such as identifying the writing hand, watch-wearing hand, or ring-wearing hand. Specific activities are used to help children overcome difficulty with left-to-right reading.
The following publications and numerous others can be found at the following website: http://www.academictherapy.com
• Classroom Visual Activities (CVA) (R.G. Richards; Academic Therapy Publications, 1988, Novato, California). More than two dozen exercises are provided to remediate underlying laterality, directionality, and midline problems, as well as activities focused on the underlying visual skills necessary to achieve efficient visual perception. The exercises are categorized by the areas addressed, which include muscle movement, oculomotor skills, accommodation, and visualization.
• Optometric Extension Program has numerous pamphlets, books, and references at http://www.oepf.org
Many computer programs that work on visual-perceptual skills are available commercially. Only a few are listed. Others can be found at http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=0705304988&db=aph
• Xerox Imaging Systems (800-248-6550): Makers of the Kurzweil Reading Machine that is used in the BookWise computer-based tutoring system. BookWise converts the text into synthesized speech, integrating the child’s auditory processing and visual tracking skills by simultaneously highlighting the work.
• Lexia Learning Systems (800-435-3942): Offers interactive reading programs designed to facilitate the acquisition of decoding skills.
• The Learning Company (800-852-2255): Publishes the Reader Rabbit Series, which helps students strengthen visual-perception, eye-hand coordination, spatial awareness, and visual-memory.
• Don Johnson, Inc. (800-999-4660): Provides a wide array of both adaptive computer hardware and computer software programs to strengthen areas of computer access, communication, productivity, and literacy for people with special needs.
• Hartley Courseware (800-247-1380): Offers visual tracking software and more than 200 computer programs.
• DLM (800-843-8855): Provides programs that break down decoding for early readers.
• Great Wave Software (800-423-1144): Provides software for early readers.
• International Society for Technology in Education (800-336-5191): Offers a wide array of resources and support materials for education.
*All McMonnies’s materials are distributed in the United States through the Optometric Extension Program (OEP), Santa Ana, California.