PACE – Skills Improved

24 Underlying Processing Skills that PACE Works On:

  1. Auditory Processing: to process sounds. The major underlying skill needed to learn to read and spell.
  2. Auditory Discrimination: to hear differences in sounds such as loudness, pitch, duration, and phonemes.
  3. Auditory Segmenting: to break apart words into their separate sounds.
  4. Auditory Blending: to blend individual sounds to form words.
  5. Auditory Analysis: to determine the number, sequence, and which sounds are within a word.
  6. Auditory- Visual Association: to be able to link a sound with an image.
  7. Comprehension: to understand words and concepts.
  8. Divided Attention: to attend to and handle two or more tasks at one time. Such as: taking notes while listening, carrying totals while adding the next column. Required for handling tasks quickly as well as handling complex tasks.
  9. Logic and Reasoning: to reason, plan, and think.
  10. Long Term Memory: to retrieve past information
  11. Math Computations: to do math calculations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
  12. Processing Speed: the speed which the brain processes information.
  13. Saccadic Fixation: to move the eyes accurately and quickly from one point to another.
  14. Selective Attention: to stay on task even when distraction is present.
  15. Sensory-Motor Integration: to have the sensory skills work well with the motor skills – such as eye-hand coordination
  16. Sequential Processing: to process chunks of information that are received one after another
  17. Simultaneous Processing: to process chunks of information that are received all at once
  18. Sustained Attention: to be able to stay on task.
  19. Visual Discrimination: to see differences in size, color, shape, distance, and orientation of objects.
  20. Visual Processing: to process and make use of visual images.
  21. Visual Manipulation: to flip, rotate, move, change color, etc. objects and images in one’s mind
  22. Visualization: to create mental images or pictures.
  23. Visual Span: to see more/wider in a single look.
  24. Working Memory: Holding information in your memory while deciding what to do with it