Why is visual perception important?
Good visual perceptual skills are important for many every day skills such as reading, writing, completing puzzles, cutting, drawing, completing math problems, dressing, finding your sock on the bedroom floor as well as many other skills. Without the ability to complete these every day tasks, a child’s self esteem can suffer and their academic and play performance is compromised.
- Completing puzzles or dot to dots.
- Planning actions in relation to objects around them.
- With spatial concepts such as “in, out, on, under, next to, up, down, in front of.”
- Differentiating between “b, d, p, q”
- Reversing numbers or letters when writing.
- Losing place on a page when reading or writing.
- Remembering left and right.
- Forgetting where to start reading.
- Sequencing letters or numbers in words or math problems.
- Remembering the alphabet in sequence,
- Coping from one place to another (e.g. from board, from book, from one side of the paper to the other).
- Dressing (i.e. matching shoes or socks).
- Discriminating between size of letters and objects.
- Remembering sight words.
- Completing partially drawn pictures or stencils.
- Attending to a word on a printed page due to his/her inability to block out other words around it.
- Filtering out visual distractions such as colorful bulletin boards or movement in the room in order to attend to the task at hand.
- Sorting and organizing personal belongings (e.g. may appear disorganised or careless in work).
- With hidden picture activities or finding a specific item in a cluttered desk.
