This session explores how visual processing differences affect navigation, safety, and regulation and why these are frequently misunderstood. It examines lighting, movement, visual clutter, and environmental demands, alongside the impact on comfort, focus, and wellbeing.

Although this session focuses mainly on autism, visual processing differences can also apply to some ADHD, dyslexic, and dyspraxic people as well as those with learning disabilities.

By completing this session, participants will demonstrate that they can:

• Understand how visual processing differences affect daily life experiences.

• Identify environmental factors that increase visual demand.

• Understand links between visual input and regulation.

• Connect visual processing differences to difficulties with movement and navigation.

• Apply practical visual support strategies effectively.