About the company
Visual Learning For Life gives vision to every child's future by stimulating their visual perceptual skills. These skills involve the brain's ability to correctly and efficiently make sense of what is seen, and are essential in establishing a strong foundation for learning.
The company was established in 2005 and has been growing ever since. We provide parents, teachers and professionals with unique, professionally designed worksheets, which help to empower children who struggle with reading, spelling, handwriting, maths and comprehension due to visual perceptual problems.
We offer an extensive database of 2000 worksheets, which have been divided into 3 levels from easy to challenging. The worksheets are available on CD Rom or as a bulk Download file that will be emailed to you within 24 hours.
About the Creator/Developer/Director
Melanie Lambert, a qualified Occupational Therapist, is the brainchild and creator of Visual Learning For Life and its extensive Worksheet Database that has been specially designed to encourage the development of visual perceptual skills.
Having grown up in South Africa, Melanie began her career managing her own paediatric private practice in White River where she worked with children with learning disabilities and development delays. Her practice formed the base for a large geographical area with a limited therapy infrastructure. Children had to travel from far and wide and were unable to attend regular sessions to address their particular learning needs. Melanie saw an opportunity to address this growing need and solve this problem by developing a Visual Skills Builder CD consisting of 500 worksheets in January 2005. The idea was marketed to colleagues and professionals and received an overwhelming positive response.
Melanie moved to the London to continue working in a paediatric private practice in April 2005 and began test marketing the product in the UK. Due to positive feedback and helpful results, a second Visual Skills Builder CD was released in October 2007 and the Visual Learning for Life website - formally www.skillsforlearning.net - was launched in December 2007.
Melanie has successfully developed and maximised the contents of the CD's/bulk Download files, now totalling 2000 worksheets, to give users a complete toolkit in the pursuit of improving and enhancing children's visual perception.
About the Worksheets
We have devised a total of 2000 worksheets to support children from ages 4 to 18. The worksheets have been divided into 3 levels from easy to more challenging.
The worksheets are available on CD Rom or as a Bulk Download file that will be emailed to you within 24 hours.
They are broken up into 10 Visual Perceptual Areas or sub skills. These are:
- Form Constancy
- Figure Ground
- Position in Space
- Spatial Relationships
- Visual Discrimination
- Visual Closure
- Visual Analysis and Synthesis
- Visual Memory
- Visual Sequential Memory
- Visual Motor Integration
Problems in any of these ten areas can be identified by a professional trained in administering standardised visual perceptual tests. Alternatively if you are a parent or teacher, you can use our Online Checklist as a guide to help pin point the visual perceptual areas that require attention.
Visual Learning For Life's worksheets are designed to stimulate the development of visual perceptual skills and encourage children to assimilate these skills within their schoolwork. This tool acts as a gateway to unlock common learning disabilities and is specially designed to help the integration process from one's eyes to one's brain to action.
