Visual Perceptual & Visual Motor Handwriting

Visual Perception is the group of vision skills needed to understand, evaluate, and interpret what is seen.

How Does it Impact School Function

Navigating around school buildings and classrooms
Letter and word recognition
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Copying information from a source such as a book or a whiteboard
Object finding
Object manipulation
Recognize and understand the relationships of objects within the environment and how they relate to one another
Filter out unimportant information from an environment
Looking at the board
Reading up close and far
Writing up close
Copying from notebook
Keeping place when reading and copying
Discrimination of objects in space
Matching, sorting, and categorizing

Ideas/Strategies

Matching numbers, words, and objects
Matching upper-/lowercase letters
Search and Find/I spy
Identify or sort like objects, shapes, symbols, letters, and/or words, despite differences in size or position
Puzzles
Patterns and sequencing
Left/Right
Above/Below
In/On/Behind/In front of/Beside/Under
Completing a partial object using mirror image or dot-to-dot
Matching solid objects to outlines/Matching dotted line objects to complete objects
Tangrams/Pixy Cubes
Spot the difference
Which is the same?/Which is different?
Memory games
Word search
Letter reversals

Visual Motor Integration

Visual Motor Integration is the coordination of hand movements based upon the perception of visual information. It is the execution of hand movements guided by what the child is seeing.