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Visual Perception

The brain's interpretation of what the eyes see and it's ability to use the information from the eyes

There are many skills that fall under visual perception, such as finding a word in a cluttered page, reading fluently without skipping lines or words, mentally turning puzzle pieces to find the missing piece, remembering what a letter or picture looks like, having accurate depth perception, endurance for reading, and finding the difference between two pictures.

Visual Attention

Designer in Studio

Attending to important visual information
and being able ignore irrelevant
visual information

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Visual
Discrimination

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Being able to tell the visual differences 
and similarities between two objects
(size, shape, color, parts)

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Visual Memory

boy staring into space

 

Recalling visual parts and
details of an object

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Sequential Memory

Wooden Cars

 

Recalling a visual sequence in the
same order it was presented

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Spatial
Relationships

Fish Puzzle

Understanding where an object is in
relation to another object and how the
objects could be rotated, flipped or changed

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Figure Ground

Toys

Ability to visually locate an object
with a lot of visual clutter
(other objects, words on a page)

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Visual Closure

Cat With Blue Eyes

Ability to identify an object if part of
it is missing or covered up
*Foundation skill for fluency and speed in reading and spelling

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Oculomotor

Blue Eye on Grey Background

Ability to move the eyes in coordination to focus and look at something close, far or moving
(eye tracking pursuits, convergence, divergence)

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Occupational Therapy helps improve visual perception skills. 

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