Guidelines

What are visual perceptual deficits?

What are visual perceptual deficits?

Visual perceptual/visual motor deficits affect a child’s ability to understand the information they visually see. This impacts a child’s ability to read and affects their ability to draw or copy and often leads to a short attention span.

What falls under visual perception?

What is visual perception? Visual perception refers to the brain’s ability to make sense of what the eyes see. This is not the same as visual acuity which refers to how clearly a person sees (for example “20/20 vision”). A person can have 20/20 vision and still have problems with visual perceptual processing.

What are some perceptual impairments?

Perceptual Impairment

  • Working Memory.
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  • Hippocampus.
  • Autism.
  • Alzheimer’s Disease.
  • Cognitive Impairment.
  • Neurons.
  • Saccade.

What are the three perceptual problems?

Does the child have perceptual problems?

  • Difficulties in understanding direction, distance or location.
  • Difficulties to distinguishing differences in object/picture size, length, shape or background.
  • Naming colours and shapes is problematic.

Why do perceptual deficits occur?

Remember perceptual problems are due to the damaged areas of the brain not damage to the eye or other senses. The photograph below/right shows what it may look like for a person with neglect from their view and with loss of perception to one side.

What is a visual processing disorder?

Visual Processing Disorder involves difficulties interpreting and understanding visual information, which also includes movement, spatial relationships, form, and direction.

What are the 4 perceptual skills?

These skills include: spatial relations, figure ground, discrimination, memory, closure and form constancy.

What is strong visual perception?

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

What is visual processing deficit?

Processing Deficit (Visual) (3B) Visual processing is the ability to perceive, analyze, synthesize, and think with visual patterns including the ability to store and recall visual representations.

What is visual perception deficit?

A visual perceptual deficit refers to a reduced ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes, and should be distinguished from the types of visual deficits that are most commonly associated with the blind and partially sighted, that is, deficits in visual acuity.

How May visual perceptual skills affect learning?

Being able to obtain the most information possible in the shortest amount of time leads to optimal performance. Together these visual perceptual skills form the basis upon which all learning takes place. Building strong visual processing skills makes understanding information much easier .

What is the treatment for visual processing disorder?

Visual processing therapy is the proper treatment for those with visual perception disorders. At the Optometry Center for Vision Therapy, experienced developmental optometrists and vision therapists assist with visual processing disorder treatment, improving children’s skills in schools and enhancing their visual perception.