Cognition
and Perception
·
Memory skills
· Puzzle skills
· Attentional skills
· Visual processing skills
Areas a Paediatric Occupational Therapist treats
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Visual discrimination - finding the similarities & differences
between things.
* Visual spatial relationships - recognition of a picture.
* Visual sequential memory - being able to recall a sequence of
pictures / symbols / letters / numbers after a brief period of time.
* Visual memory - recognition of a picture / shape / symbol that
has previously been memorised.
* Visual form constancy - being able to identify a shape when it
is resized or rotated.
* Visual figure ground - finding an object within a busy background
What to look out for in your child
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Inattention and distractability to written and or reading tasks
- Difficulty in letter recognition and letter reproduction
- Reversal of letters eg b for d or p for q
- Difficulty copying from a blackboard or a whiteboard
- Poor orientation of puzzle pieces - "gives up"
- Poor at following instructions
If
you notice your child having difficulty in any of these areas then
please contact
us.
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