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Child Study Guide2
childhood disabilities, including visual perception, sensory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| discrimination | matching the same object; detect features to recognize, match and categorize |
| memory | remembering visual input; look at pic, then find it on next page |
| spatial relations | space perception; how objects relate to oneself or others; ability to find DIFFERENCES; mature by 10 |
| form constancy | object perception; recognize objects as the same in various environments, sizes and positions - smaller, bigger, darker, turned or upside down (mature by 9) |
| sequential memory | recalling objects IN ORDER (similar to visual memory, but remembering more than one item in a certain order) |
| figure ground | foreground vs. background; find "hidden" objects; mature by 6-7 |
| Where's Waldo is an example of... | figure ground |
| closure | recognizing forms from incomplete pictures |
| dot to dot is an exmaple of | closure |
| tracing is an example of | closure |
| What areas of function would typically be evaluated in occupational therapy? | self care, gross motor, fine motor, sensory, others???? |
| visual perception is... | the total process responsible for reception and cognition of visual stimuli -- how bring perceives what its eyes see -- not vision alone |
| What activities do decreased visual perceptual skills affect? | reading, writing, puzzles or art |
| decrease in visual scanning may affect | reading |
| decrease in tracking affects | writing |
| activity for visual memory | concentration, sequence games |
| activity for closure | fillin missing pictures, mazes, dot to dot |
| activity for figure ground | crossword, I spy, where's waldo |
| activity for spatial relations | 3D block designs, pegs, parquetry, mosaic grid, graph |
| activity for writing perceptual | vibration pencil, lined paper, color lines, easel, graph paper, finger space |
| Define sensory integration | the ability of our central nervous system to take in sensory input, filter out the unnecessary stuff, organize it and provide a functional response to that input |