Editing Visual thinking (section)

==Concurrency with dyslexia and autism==

===Dyslexia===
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Research suggests that dyslexia is a symptom of a predominant visual/spatial learning.<ref>Morgan (1896), Hinselwood (1900), Orton (1925)</ref> Morgan used the term 'word blindness,' in 1896. Hinselwood expanded on 'word blindness' to describe the reversing of letters and similar phenomena in the 1900s.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Orton suggested that individuals have difficulty associating the visual with the verbal form of words, in 1925.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Further studies, using technologies (PET and MRI), and wider and varied user groups in various languages, support the earlier findings.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Visual-spatial symptoms ([[dyslexia]], [[developmental coordination disorder]], [[Auditory processing disorder]] and the like) arise in non-visual and non-spatial environments and situations; hence, visual/spatial learning is aggravated by an [[education system]] based upon information presented in [[written text]] instead of presented via [[multimedia]] and [[Hands-on learning|hands-on experience]].

===Autism===
{{See also|Autism|Nonverbal learning disorder}}

Visual thinking has been argued by [[Temple Grandin]] to be an origin for delayed speech in people with [[autism]].<ref>[http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html THINKING IN PICTURES: Autism and Visual Thought<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It has been suggested that visual thinking has some necessary connection with autism.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Functional imaging studies on people with autism have supported the hypothesis that they have a cognitive style that favors the use of visuospatial coding strategies.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sahyoun|first=Chérif P.|author2=John W. Belliveau |author3=Isabelle Soulières |author4=Shira Schwartz |author5=Maria Mody |title= Neuroimaging of the Functional and Structural Networks Underlying Visuospatial versus Linguistic Reasoning in High-Functioning Autism|journal=Neuropsychologia|year=2010|volume=48|issue=1|pages=86–95|doi= 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.013|pmc=2795068 |pmid=19698726}}</ref> However, the existence of people with both [[Aphantasia]] and autism brings this theory into question.