{"id":11186,"date":"2021-05-11T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T10:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optometrists.org\/?page_id=11186"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:12:42","slug":"visual-descrimination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.optometrists.org\/vision-therapy\/guide-vision-and-learning-difficulties\/guide-to-visual-information-processing\/visual-descrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Descrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Has your child been told they have a learning difficulty? 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