
Occupational therapists, trained in evaluation and treatment of problems with visual skills, are available at all outpatient and inpatient neighborhood locations. Who Can Benefit?Ĭhildren who can benefit may have difficulty with: The therapist will work with your child to improve their abilities at home, in school, and in the community. Visual perceptual skills include visual memory, visual closure, form constancy, visual spatial relations, visual discrimination, visual attention, visual. Occupational therapists at Cincinnati Children’s are trained in evaluation and treatment of problems with visual skills. Visual perception is the process where the brain extracts and organises information, giving meaning to what we see.

Why Choose Us?Īt Cincinnati Children's, we have the environment and resources to provide developmentally appropriate treatment sessions and home programs to help your child develop visual perceptual and motor skills to promote optimal performance. Children may have difficulty with copying shapes, handwriting, lining up math problems, etc. Visual motor skills enable a child to coordinate their eyes and hands to draw and write. Visual closure - the ability to identify two objects that are the same even if part of one is missing.Figure ground - the ability to find an object when it is hidden in a busy background (e.g.Form constancy - the ability to notice that two objects are the same even if they are different in size, color, etc.Visual memory - the ability to remember visual information.Visual discrimination - matching two objects that are the same.Visual perceptual skills enable a child to make sense of and interpret what they are seeing.
