What is Visual Perception?
Visual Perception is the ability to interpret, analyse and give meaning to what is seen. From the moment they step foot inside your classroom, children are taking in visual information and making sense of it in order to learn. Up to 80% of what they learn is through visual opportunities.
The process of taking in one's environment is referred to as "perception." If this perception is incorrect or altered in any way, a child will present with reading, spelling, handwriting, maths and comprehension problems. These visual perceptual difficulties may be connected to physical eye issues but even children with 20/20 vision can struggle to organise visual information and develop the visual perceptual skills necessary to establish a strong foundation for learning.
As a teacher, you may have observed some of the children in your class struggling with the following aspects amongst other things: difficulty keeping their place when reading; confusing similar letters (b/d/p/q); sequencing letters incorrectly; misreading or substituting words; and producing poor quality drawings or handwriting. These are some of the common observations made when children have underlying visual perceptual difficulties.
An immaturity in any of the visual perceptual areas can improve as the brain matures a great deal from early childhood into adulthood. The Worksheet Database is a unique tool that can help to stimulate this process of eye to brain to action, and encourage children to correctly assimilate visual perceptual skills within their schoolwork.
Give vision to your pupils future. Fill out our Online Checklist to help you identify whether a child you work with has difficulties with visual perception.
About the Worksheet Database
Visual Learning For Life's Worksheet Database is a unique tool that has been designed to stimulate the development of visual perceptual skills and encourage children to assimilate these skills within their schoolwork. This empowering 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.
The comprehensive Database contains over 1000 worksheets, with more being added every month, and can be used by parents, teachers and professionals alike to help children overcome visual perceptual difficulties. The worksheets have been devised to support children from ages 4 to 18.
The worksheets are broken up into ten Visual Perceptual Areas or sub skills. 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. They 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.
Each section has been graded into three levels. Level 1 being the easiest with level 2 and 3 increasing in difficulty respectively. It is recommended to start on level 1 as this will provide a solid base of understanding and will help the child get to grips with the exercises quickly and easily. The Worksheet Database allows you to tailor make individual programmes to suit the needs of every child giving them the means to tackle the visual perceptual areas that they are specifically weak in. This will in turn sharpen their mental skills and narrow the gap between their ability and performance.
Parents, teachers and professionals can browse the Worksheet Database free of charge or setup a Subscription to gain complete access to the entire range of worksheets. The Subscription allows you to personalise your account, giving you the power to target your child's, pupil's or patient's individual needs.
Benefits of Visual Learning For Life:
- Excellent tool to support the general development of visual perceptual skills
- Worksheets allow you to enhance learning and help bridge the gap between ability and performance in common learning disabilities
- Great as a class activity to stimulate thinking skills - works well as a warm up exercise
- Online Checklist can be used to devise a worksheet programme for a specific individual
- Easy to use. The worksheets are sorted according to the various visual perceptual areas and graded in three levels from easy to more challenging
- You are able to browse the entire worksheet database free of charge before purchasing a subscription
- Having permanent access, through a subscription, you are able to devise and adapt a programme to suit your student's individual needs
- Value for money - the whole database is the equivalent to a variety of CD Roms
What other teachers are saying
I have found this resource invaluable. All of my teaching assistants have spent training sessions working through the programme. We have used it with our dyslexic children, able and talented and those children with special needs. The teachers have also found the worksheets useful as an exciting way to start a lesson.
- Sarah Howells, Learning Development Coordinator
It is great; we had great use of the materials and have been able to use them with a variety of students.I will be using the materials for two withdrawal groups I plan to have in September.
- Ann Harding, SENCO, UK.
