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VISUAL PERCEPTUAL SKILLS
How it Affects Your Child
Visual Spatial Relations: The ability to determine that one form or part of a form is turned in a different direction than the others.
This can look like:
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Compensatory Strategies:
Sequential Memory: The ability to remember a series of forms and find it among four other series of forms; Visual sequential memory reflects a child’s ability to recall a series or sequence of forms.
Can Cause Problems With:
Activities to do:
Visual Discrimination: Visual discrimination refers to a child’s ability to differentiate between objects and forms. It gives us the ability to notice subtle differences and to identify if something does or does not belong. For example, this skill is important for identifying and exchanging money, and matching and sorting objects.
Can cause problems with:
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Form Constancy: The ability to see a form and find it among other forms, although it may be sized different or rotated; Visual form constancy reflects a child’s ability to recognize forms, letters, or words regardless of their orientation (i.e., if a form were upside down, sideways, inverted, etc.).
Can cause problems with:
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Visual Memory: Visual memory reflects the child’s ability to store visual details of what has been seen in the short-term memory. If details aren’t stored, there will also be difficulty accurately recalling, and in some instances reproducing, all of the characteristics of a given item.
Can cause problems with:
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Visual Closure: Visual closure reflects a child’s ability to look at an incomplete shape, object or amount, and fill in the missing details in order to identify what it would be if it were complete. This skill requires abstract problem solving.
Can cause problems with:
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Figure Ground: The ability to perceive a form and find it hidden in a conglomerated ground of matter; Visual figure-ground refers to the ability to locate and identify shapes and objects embedded in a busy visual environment, or the ability to attend to one activity without being distracted by other surrounding stimuli.
Can cause problems with:
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**Encourage the child to practice the habits of keeping their work area clear, use the easiest kind of paper, and block out distractions on worksheets.**
