Cognition and Perception

• Memory skills
• Puzzle skills
• Attentional skills
• Visual processing skills

Areas we treat:

• Visual discrimination – finding the similarities and differences between things
• Visual spatial relationships – recognition of a picture
• Visual sequential memory – being able to recall a sequence of pictures/symbols/letters/numbers after a brief period of time
• Visual memory – recognition of a picture/shape/symbol that has previously been memorized
• Visual form constancy – being able to identify a shape when it is resized or rotated
• Visual figure ground – finding an object within a busy background

What to look out for in your child:

• Inattention and distractibility to written and or reading tasks
• Difficulty in letter recognition and letter reproduction
• Reversal of letters, e.g. b for d, p for q
• Difficulty copying from a blackboard or a whiteboard
• Poor orientation of puzzle pieces – “gives up”
• Poor at following instructions