Home Exercises-Visual Processing Skills
Areas of Visual Processing:
-Dressing tasks- matching socks or shoes
-Correcting errors in previous written paragraph or child's work
-Distinguishing similarities and differences in the formation of letters (i.e.reversals) or objects-Highlight magazines
-Use a popsicle stick with marks on the child's writing sample to indicate good spaces and a red marker for not enough space.
-Work on size by having child identify words with incorrect capitals inside them
-Copy 3D designs
- Place plastic letters into a bag and have child identify the letter without looking
-Identify numbers or letters that are made incorrectly in several places, identify how the letter is incorrect
-Bingo, hidden pictures Highlight magazines, Where's Waldo? https://images.app.goo.gl/EqrSbMWyEF53xZyz8,
-I Spy games https://www.arkadium.com/free-online-games/hidden-object/
-Provide completed project and have student use step by step instructions to complete novel project
-Arrange seat placement right in front of Visual source ( Smartboard, blackboard, overhead)
-Provide student with cleanly photocopied worksheets and test forms
-Provide student with helpful hints about mistakes made in order for them to self correct
-Puzzles- start with less pieces and gradually do puzzles with more pieces
-Mazes- increasing in complexity
-Complete word search puzzles that require you to look for a series of letters
- Play games like Bingo that require you to look for a specific form
-Play memory card games
-Use bendable things i.e. Wiki sticks, pipe cleaners, have them form shape/letter and visual prior to making
-Practice building block designs according to a diagram or model
-Complete construction type tasks i.e. Duplo, Legos, K-nex or Erector sets
- Visual Discrimination-Helps the child pay attention to the details of the task
-Dressing tasks- matching socks or shoes
-Correcting errors in previous written paragraph or child's work
-Distinguishing similarities and differences in the formation of letters (i.e.reversals) or objects-Highlight magazines
-Use a popsicle stick with marks on the child's writing sample to indicate good spaces and a red marker for not enough space.
-Work on size by having child identify words with incorrect capitals inside them
- Visual Spatial Relationships
-Copy 3D designs
- Place plastic letters into a bag and have child identify the letter without looking
-Identify numbers or letters that are made incorrectly in several places, identify how the letter is incorrect
- Figure Ground -Helps the child find information in a busy background, also helps the child to not lose their place when reading or copying from far point
-Bingo, hidden pictures Highlight magazines, Where's Waldo? https://images.app.goo.gl/EqrSbMWyEF53xZyz8,
-I Spy games https://www.arkadium.com/free-online-games/hidden-object/
- Visual Closure- Help the child to make sense of things that are only partly visible- helps with math and reading/decoding
-Provide completed project and have student use step by step instructions to complete novel project
-Arrange seat placement right in front of Visual source ( Smartboard, blackboard, overhead)
-Provide student with cleanly photocopied worksheets and test forms
-Provide student with helpful hints about mistakes made in order for them to self correct
-Puzzles- start with less pieces and gradually do puzzles with more pieces
-Mazes- increasing in complexity
- Visual Memory and Sequential Memory- Helps with reading and recalling frequently seen words
-Complete word search puzzles that require you to look for a series of letters
- Play games like Bingo that require you to look for a specific form
-Play memory card games
-Use bendable things i.e. Wiki sticks, pipe cleaners, have them form shape/letter and visual prior to making
- Form Constancy- Helps child understand if letter is the same or not
-Practice building block designs according to a diagram or model
-Complete construction type tasks i.e. Duplo, Legos, K-nex or Erector sets
