Visual Perceptual Activities: Depth Perception

 

Visual Perceptual Activities: Depth Perception:

Does your child struggle with following an appropriate gait pattern when walking up or down stairs? Does your child experience difficulty when reaching for the monkey bars or trapeze bar in the playground? Does your child have difficulty when reaching for clothing or other items on closet shelves at height level? Does your child often trip when stepping over the curb while crossing the street? Does your child have difficulty reaching for toys floating in the water when  playing in the bathtub? Does your child overreach at mealtime while reaching for food and when feeding himself?  If your child struggles during any of these daily tasks, there may be an underlying depth perception issue. Here are some activities to which can increase your child’s depth perception:

Depth perception : Ability to determine how far away something is from yourself or another object. Depth perception is used for walking, playing games such as baseball, dressing, eating, grooming,  etc. example: ability to judge how steep a stair is before you take a step.

Activities: 1) Place objects in various locations on a stair case. Ask the child to identify which objects are closer to himself and which items are closer to the adult. Ask the child to identify which objects are positioned within similar distances. Then, allow the child to reposition the objects on the floor with instructions about which objects should be positioned closer and further away from a given reference point. For example, “put the frog above the duck,” or “put the snake next to the rabbit.”

2) Paste pictures of toys onto stickies. Ask the child to place the stickies on various toys in the playroom.

3) For older kids (five and above), use a large shoebox to create a diorama with the child using various objects and materials. Explain to the child where each item should be placed.

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Visual Perceptual Activities: Position in Space

 

Visual Perceptual Activities: Position in Space

Does your child have difficulty locating a given area on a coloring sheet or homework page? Does your child struggle with reading from left to right? Does your child experience putting age-appropriate puzzles together? Does your child color on one side of a page and leave the other side blank? Does your child forget where to start reading? Does your child experience difficulty with math problems with two or more digit numbers? Here are some activities which can enhance your child’s ability to recognize appropriate position in space and increase proper directionality:

Position in Space: Awareness of the spatial orientation between yourself and objects in the environment,as well as relationship between objects. Position in space is a basis for recognizing directional relationships such as up and down, right and left, behind and in front of.

Activities: 1)  Ask the child to locate animals on the floor or on elevated surfaces or various heights. Tell the child “point to the animal next to the hippo” or “point to the animal behind the dog.”

2)   Create a three-dimensional design with legos, kinex pieces, or building blocks. Ask the child to copy your design in the identical special orientation.

3)  Play a ball activity with the child, such as catch, volleyball, basketball, sketch-it, bowling, kickball, or another other ball game your child prefers.

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Visual Perceptual Activities: Figure Ground

Visual Perceptual Activities: Figure Ground

Does your child experience difficulty with hidden pictures? Does your child have trouble finding or tracing shapes in a picture? Does your child struggle when attempting to sort objects into various categories? Does your child struggle when trying to focus on one word on a busy page? Does your child experience difficulty when copying from a busy blackboard? Does your child have trouble finding the arm holes when putting on a dark shirt? Does your child often miss important details in a picture or sentence? Does your child exhibit difficulty finding objects or clothing in cluttered drawers or cabinets? If so, your child may be experiencing difficulty with figure ground. Here are some activities which can help increase visual figure ground:

Visual Figure Ground: Ability to identify an object/figure from a simple or complex background, example: the ability to distinguish a shirt from amongst various pieces of clothing hanging in the closet.

Activities: 1)  Ask your  child to find a list of pictures in a hidden picutre worksheet such as the one shown below. To incorporate writing skills, ask the child to write down each of the pictures as they find them.

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2) Ask your child to find a list of item from an “I Spy” book.  Here is a link to a website with free “I Spy” games.

 3) Play the game SET with the child. Spread the cards across the table, and ask the child to scan the cards and locate  a “set” of three cards with one common variable, such as color, shape, or number.

 4) Create an activity out of a grocery shopping trip (or any other shopping outing). Ask the child to locate various items from a given list on crowded grocery shelves. The  level of the activity may be altered depending on if the items on the list are located near each other on the same shelf or spread across various shelves or aisles.

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Visual Perceptual Activities: Form Constancy

Visual Perceptual Activities: Form Constancy

Does your child experience difficulty recognizing shapes as similar if the size, color, or orientation is changed? Does your child get confused when shapes are presented in different contexts? Does you child confuse numbers and letters when their size is altered? Can your child identify basic shapes when the shapes are part of a larger design? If your child experiences difficulty with any of the above description, here are some activities that can help your child develop visual form constancy:

Form Constancy: Ability to recognize items and shapes as the same, regardless of size, color, or direction, example: the ability to recognize a diamond when it is altered from a blue horizontal diamond to a red vertical diamond.

Activities:  1)  Ask the child to trace numerous shapes of various sizes and cut them out on different colors of construction paper, or use foam shapes. Ask the child to categorize the various shapes on a piece of construction paper or posterboard.

2)  Ask the child to create shapes, letters, or numbers with various materials.

3)  Create or print a page with shape designs composed of various shapes, sizes, and patterns. Ask the child to use a given color to color each  shape, size/ and or pattern in the picture.

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