Visual Perception

Visual Perceptual skills involve the ability to organize and interpret the information that is seen and give it meaning.

Our eyes send large amounts of information to our brains to process every single second. If our eyes are sending us the proper information in a way that makes sense, the brain can then process it, thus allowing us to form thoughts, make decisions, and create action.

As part of our learning programs, we test seven core visual perceptual skills:

1.    Visual Memory – the visual skill that allows us to record, store and retrieve information. It allows us to learn and later recall what is learned. 

2.    Visual Sequential Memory – similar to visual memory, in that it allows us to store and retrieve information when necessary or useful. However sequential memory helps us remember and recognize people, places we have been, and series of events, equations, and procedures.

3.    Visual Form Constancy – the visual skill that allows us to distinguish one object from another similar object. Being able to tell the difference between the letter “b” and “d” or “3” and “8”. Though the forms are similar in shape, they are very different in meaning.

4.    Visual Figure Ground – the visual skill that allows us to distinguish, segregate, isolate or find an object or stimuli in varying environments. This can include; faces, figures, objects, landscapes, and letters or numbers. Properly processing our visual figure ground helps to organize the information we see in our environment.

5.    Visual Spatial Relations – the visual skill that allows us to process the visual environment around us and the location of objects in respect to ourselves. 

6.    Visual Closure – the visual skill that allows us to detect, differentiate, select, draw conclusions and understand information, when we are only given certain pieces of information, rather than the entire account, story or explanation.

7.    Visual Discrimination – each of the above six skills require some degree of visual discrimination. Visual Discrimination is the ability to identify detail, seeing items likes and differences in shape, colour, position and orientation.