How occupational therapy incorporates visual perceptual skills in children?

 Do you know, parents start to use the visual perceptual skills to engage their children during their infancy.

Visual memory is one of the ways to remember something like a picture or a contact number for a short time period and the  visual sequence can last  around 30 seconds. 

Therefore, teachers or therapists use some properties to teach children and it results more effectively than that of other methods. 

In total, the visual perception skills is the ability of the brain to make sense of what the eyes perceive and it is also found as a part of everyday life like watching visual presentations of fruits and vegetables, dressing up, writing or playing etc.

Thus, this technique is used in the occupational therapy sessions to help children to overcome the learning difficulties.

There are mainly seven types of visual perception skills which are useful for children to improve their abilities:

• Visual spatial relations 

Is that ability to understand the letters like p and q or b and d as it is the part of the same form which shows the determination skills.

• Sequential memory 

This needs the ability to find a series of forms and need to differentiate from other forms. For example, children copying notes from a blackboard identifies a word rather than a letter while taking it to a notebook, but, if children will skip letters or words and it shows the difficulty in sequential memory.

• Visual discrimination 

Is the ability to differentiate between objects and other properties. For instance, identifying coins or types of toys etc. children with this type problem cannot find the difference between objects or similarities in that. The same problem can also affect while learning alphabets like b or d which is similar to  visual spatial relations.

• Form constancy 

Is that the children needs the skills to choose the right forms or objects from a series of forms, which can confuse them while looking for numbers or alphabets with similar size and shape.

• Visual memory 

It indicates the memory storage for a short period of time in the brain and this is different from others. People recall contact numbers or some sequence of visual information as it is stored in the brain as some memories. Children who are dealing with these problems cannot answer the questions after showing some sort of information in a visual form.

 

• Visual closure 

This needs problem solving skills like filling the blank or completion of an incomplete sentence and so on. For example, arranging puzzle cards or completing the sentence with missing words which can be in mathematics or other subjects. Children with disabilities cannot do it correctly.

• Visual figure ground  

Is the ability to determine the exact thing from a group of things. For example, picking up the right color pencil like red from a group of color variants. 

These activities help children to increase their skills with visual treatments and other occupational therapies. The occupational therapy sessions include the best session from the above list of visual perception skills.

Occupational Therapy in Ras Al Khaimah chooses the best therapy strategies for their clients and thus, fast recovery is possible in the case of children.

In addition to that, children with these difficulties can enable their skills and improve it with the help of parents and therapists.