Visual Processing Hurdles
What are the problems your child will face?
1. Visual Discrimination: problems identifying color, form, shape, size, position and where an object is in its environment. Difficulty gathering information from graphs, charts, and pictures and recognize shapes, letters, or objects when there is a background.
2. Visual Closure: Inability to identify or recognize a symbol or object when the entire object is not there. For example, AJ can not tell me what is missing from a face if the nose is not there.
3. Object recognition: Inability to recognize familiar objects. Some researchers believe that this is due to visual memory or that the child may not be able to see the object as a whole. This can interfere with the child’s ability to consistently recognize colors, shapes, letters and words.
4. Whole/Part Relationships: Inability to recognize either the whole object or parts of the object. ie: the child may be able to memorize the entire word but not be able to identify the letters within the word.
5. Other areas: Fine motor skills, gross motor skills, spacial relations, and identifying objects in space (playing ball or seeing a table that matches the background).
