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Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Motor Integration
Visual motor integration is the eyes telling the hands/body what to do. This is ever so important in fine motor and gross motor activities. Some examples of fine motor activities involving visual motor integration: handwriting, coloring, playing with Legos, etc. Some...
Vision and Learning Info Night
Do you know a child who is struggling in school? Is your child working hard but still not working up to potential? Do you want to know more about how vision can affect the way we learn? Please attend our FREE workshop discussing how vision affects learning on...
Support Groups for Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury
There are a few local support groups for survivors of a concussion/traumatic brain injury and their family. Summit County: Cr3ative Expressions-- Meets the second Thursday of every month at Summa Rehab Hospital (29 North Adams Street, Akron, Ohio 44304). For...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Closure
Inefficient visual closure skills may result in incomplete work, ignoring details when doing visual tasks, and being able to do parts of a task but not put them together. A person with poor visual closure may need to have all details explained because they cannot...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Figure Ground
Poor figure ground skills may cause difficulty determining what is significant from what is insignificant and difficulty completing work. It may also make it harder to get meaning from the printed page when there is a lot of information or clutter on the page. You...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Sequential Memory
Difficulty with visual sequencing may contribute to poor spelling skills, difficulty organizing, and following through with tasks that require more than one step. This is important in spelling, math, and also being able to follow directions properly. It can also cause...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Form Constancy
Form evaluation skills allow for immediate and accurate production of likenesses and differences and the ability to reproduce and generalize forms. Visual form constancy allows for accurate interpretation of an object, word, letter, or number no matter how it is...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Spatial Relationships
Spatial relationships is the ability to perceive the positions of objects in relation to oneself and/or other objects. A person who has difficulty in this area may struggle with spelling tasks and with concepts of “up”, “down”, “front”, “back”, “left” and “right”. You...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Memory
Visual memory is the ability to remember the detail of a shape within a small amount of time and then be able to choose the identical shape from other similar shapes. The ability to retain this information over a small amount of time is important for one’s reading...
Visual Perceptual Skills- Visual Discrimination
Someone with visual discrimination difficulties may have trouble matching and/or distinguishing similarities and differences in words (planet vs plane), letters, pictures, objects, numbers, etc. Sorting and matching objects (such as socks) can also be troublesome....
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