Visual Processing

Question 1

What is Visual Processing (Gv)

Answer 1

A facility for visualizing and mentally manipulating figures and responding appropriately to spatial forms.

Includes:
-Visualization
-Spatial Orientation
-Speed of closure
-Flexibility of closure
-Spatial Planning
-Figural Flexibility
-Length estimation
-figural fluency
-Seeing illusions

Question 2

Visual Processing in Lay Terms?

Answer 2

An individual’s ability to think about visual patterns and visual stimuli.

Involves the ability to generate, perceive, analyze, synthesize, manipulate, and transform visual patterns and stimuli.

Also refers to the brain’s ability to make sense (manipulate and memorize) what the eyes see.

Question 3

What is Visual Discrimination?

Answer 3

The ability to differentiate objects based on individual characteristics.

• Ability to distinguish the similarities and differences in the detail of visual input.
  -Ability to classify objects, symbols, or shapes.
  -These can be categorized by color, position, form, pattern, texture, as well as size.

Question 4

What is Visual Perceptual Integration

Answer 4

The ability to integrate fragmentary visual input into a perceptually organized collection of surfaces and objects.

-Perception of integration of the relationship between an object or symbol in its entirety and the component parts.
-An understanding of quantity, direction, interval, shape, location, size, direction, movement, and sequence.
-Also includes the coordination of visual as well as fine motor skills.

Question 5

What is Visual Spatial Perception?

Answer 5

The ability to visually perceive two or more objects in relation to each other and yourself.

-how we understand how things move and interact in relation to the physical space around them.
-understanding the relationships of objects as they change position.

ex: ability to mentally rotate in your head. Visualizing objects from different perspectives. etc.

Question 6

What is Figure-Ground?

Answer 6

The ability to identify an object from a background of other objects.

The ability to perceive the foreground from the background in a visual array.

Impairments in this area may interfere with finding specific pictures, symbols, letters, numbers or words in a book, on a board, or on other visual material.

Question 7

What are Reversals?

Answer 7

2 types:
-reversals of digits or letters, creating a mirror image of a single digit.
-Reversal of the digits within numbers.

Question 8

Academic Impacts

Answer 8

Visual Processing deficits impact - Math & Written Expression

Visual Memory deficits impact - Reading & Math

Question 9

In the classroom

Answer 9

-Misunderstanding or confusing written symbols
-Difficulty judging distances
-Difficulty with the fluidity of movement
-Weaknesses with organizing info from various sources into one cohesive document.
-Difficulty remembering visuals once removed from field.
-Confusion with similar shaped letters, numbers, etc.

Question 10

Visual Processing (Discrimination) Deficits in the classroom

Answer 10

-Difficulty sorting out geometric shapes.
-Difficulty classifying things
-Difficulty discriminating between symbols (+ x < >)
-Confusion between b/d m/n r/n n/h p/q q/g

Question 11

Visual Processing (Figure Ground) Deficits in the classroom

Answer 11

-Difficulty keeping their place in reading or number work
-Loses place when copying from the blackboard or text
-Skips sections when working through an exercise
-Difficulty picking out things in a complex picture.