VISUAL PERCEPTION SKILLS HELP US IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET VISUAL SYMBOLS! VISUAL PERCEPTION: This refers to the process by which the brain interprets and understands the visual information received by the eyes. Many components influence Visual Perception.     • Visual Figure-Ground: The ability to perceive a visual form and find it amid a distracting background. Such as Word Searches.     • Visual Form Constancy: The ability to recognize an object or abstract representation which has been manipulated in space. To see a form as the same, even though it may appear smaller, larger, rotated, reversed and/or hidden.     • Visual Closure: The ability to visually create a "whole" picture from appropriate "parts".     • Visual Matching: making, providing or selecting one object or abstract representation that is the same as another.     • Visual Memory: The mental function or capacity of recalling an image created through visualization or a previous visual experience.     • Visual Sequencing: The ability to perceive the logical progression of visual images, space, time or thought.     • Visual Manipulation: The ability to visually transfer objects or abstract representations to another dimension in space.     • Visual Spatial Relationships: The knowledge of "whereness". The ability to perceive the position of two or more objects in relation to oneself as well as in relation to each other. Laterality/Directionality are important components here. Poor visual perception skills can lead to copying errors, letter & number reversal issues and difficulities with problem-solving tasks. POSSIBLE INDICATIONS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION PROBLEMS: - Inaccurate judgement of sizes - Inaccurate judgement of distances/spacing - Left-Right confusions of self/others - Poor awareness of similarities/differences - Reversals Back to WHAT IS VISION Back to HOME VISIT ACTIVITY IDEAS