Cognitive & Visual Perception Skills

The ability to gain meaning and knowledge from experiences and information. It encompasses both basic and higher-level skills.

Basic skills that are essential for learning, such as orientation, attention, memory, following instructions, and initiation.

More complex skills that are involved in higher-level thinking, such as planning, sequencing, reasoning, and problem-solving.

The brain's ability to make sense of what the eyes see. It's not the same as visual acuity (how clearly you see).

The ability to distinguish between different visual features, such as colors, shapes, and sizes. It helps us identify similarities or differences in objects.

The ability to store and recall visual information. It's essential for learning, as we learn through visual experiences.

The ability to remember and reproduce a sequence of visual information in the correct order. This skill is critical for reading and writing.

The ability to understand directional concepts and how objects are positioned in space. It helps us understand words like "above", "below", "in front", and "behind."

The ability to recognize an object or symbol, even if it's presented in a different size, orientation, or color. It helps us recognize the same object in different contexts.

The ability to recognize a complete picture, even if it's only partially presented. It helps us fill in the missing information.

The ability to distinguish an object from the background. It helps us focus on the relevant visual information and ignore distractions.

A standardized assessment tool that measures a child's ability to use their visual-perceptual skills to perform complex eye-hand coordination tasks. It includes tasks like reaching, grasping, building with blocks, and copying designs.

A standardized assessment tool that measures a child's visual-motor integration skills, which involve using vision and hand movements together.

A curriculum designed for children with special needs, which includes activities that focus on various developmental areas, including attention, memory, visual perception, concepts, problem-solving, and visual-motor integration.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's ability to attend to visual stimuli, remember them, and act based on their memory.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's understanding of concepts and their ability to imitate simple actions.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's visual-perceptual skills, specifically their ability to match and sort objects based on different criteria.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's visual-perceptual skills involving blocks and puzzles.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's ability to solve problems, reason, and apply logic.

A subtest within the Carolina Curriculum that assesses a child's visual motor integration skills, involving the coordinated use of vision and hand movements.

The ability to visually fixate on an object for a certain period.

The ability to follow a moving object with the eyes.

The ability to recognize familiar objects, people, and places.

The ability to retrieve objects from their usual locations.

The ability to perform actions related to familiar rhymes or songs.

The ability to identify an object or picture after seeing it briefly.

The ability to match objects or pictures based on their characteristics or categories.

The ability to place shapes into a form board, shape sorter, or other designated slots.

The ability to assemble puzzles with increasing complexity.

The ability to build structures with blocks, following instructions or imitating models.

The ability to complete sequences of colors, shapes, or patterns.

The ability to identify missing parts in pictures or objects.

The ability to identify opposites of objects, words, or concepts.

The ability to sequence the steps of a story or event in the correct order.

The ability to imagine and describe what may happen next in a story or situation.

The ability to draw a person with age-appropriate features.