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What is visual perception
Does your child have difficulty finding their shoes, or do they get confused if they have to find a hair tie or a specific object in a drawer with many things?
Then it might be a good idea to train your child's "visual perception," which is their ability to sort through the information they receive from their sense of sight. It is completely normal that some children need more support in sorting through the information they receive than others.
Visual perception is about how the brain interprets what the eyes see. It is therefore not the sight itself (being able to see sharply), but the ability to understand and give meaning to visual impressions.
One could say:
Sight = the eyes register
Visual perception = the brain understands
In short
Visual perception is the process by which the brain: recognizes shapes, colors, and patterns
assesses distance and depth
distinguishes between things (e.g., letters or shapes)
remembers what one has seen
What you can do
To help your child, you can play small games that strengthen their ability to sort. We do this when we purposefully look for objects.
I love a game like having to find "the yellow rubber duck" in a room the child is familiar with. This means they are already aware of what objects are usually in the room and thus have to find the thing that stands out.
As your child gets better and better at spotting the rubber duck, you can hide it more and more, or have more figures that need to be found.
What it means for your child's everyday life
If your child has difficulty finding individual objects in a room, finding their shoes in the cloakroom, or a pencil in their pencil case, it can be tiring to be in their everyday life.
It may be that your child is overwhelmed by the amount of visual information in a decorated classroom or in the daycare playroom and misses important information in all the visual noise, or it may be that your child simply doesn't register where one decoration ends and another begins and therefore has difficulty locating objects.
It is hard for your child, and that is why we want to strengthen this specific sensory processing.