Visual Perception

Visual perceptual skills enable a child's eyes and brain to make sense of and interpret what they are seeing.

• Visual discrimination - matching things that are the same

• Visual memory - the ability to remember information that we see

• Form constancy - the ability to notice that two objects are the same even if they are different in size, color, etc. (ex: red stop sign as an octagon)

• Figure ground - the ability to find an object when it is hidden in a busy background (e.g. “Where’s Waldo”)

• Visual closure - the ability to identify two things that are the same even if part of one is missing (like letter C looks simliar to letter O)