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Visual Perception Skills for Children with Dyslexia | PART 2: Visual Figure-Ground Perception

The book Visual Perception Skills for Children with Dyslexia is the second in a series of seven books that provide intervention material aimed at developing the visual perception skills of school-age children. It contains 225 exercises and activities designed to enhance the visual skill of figure-ground perception.


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Description

Visual Figure-Ground Perception

Age Group : 6+

Laid out in a colourful and easy-to-use format, it is addressed to special education needs teachers, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, parents and schoolteachers who aim to support their children in developing and strengthening their skills. It introduces a set of games and activities that build and enhance visual perceptual skills in an enjoyable and interactive way. Learning has never been so effective and attractive. A simple navigation through this material will convince you!

Visual perceptual skills influence several aspects of children’s development and everyday life, ranging from motor skills to essential life aptitudes.

Figure-ground perception is the ability to perceive a form visually and identify it within a set of other forms and lines. It is the ability to distinguish an object from other irrelevant, general elements.

It includes, inter alia:

  • 225 worksheets
  • activities aiming at recognising colours / domino pieces
  • activities aiming at recognising  shapes / cubes
  • activities aiming at recognising objects  in the background
  • activities aiming at recognising letters and numbers  in a complex background
  • activities aiming at recognising  and counting letters and numbers
  • word search puzzles
  • interactive games and activities

Visual perceptual skills influence several aspects of children’s development and everyday life, ranging from motor skills to essential life aptitudes.

Specifications

  • Book format
    Paper (Spiral Binding) or PDF file
  • SKU
    EN-EB1030
  • Age
    School-aged children
  • Number of pages
    240
  • Dimensions
    8.27 x 11.69 inches
  • Author
    Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc
  • Pagination
    Alice Kassotaki
  • Translation & Proofreading
    Maria Rigli
  • Year of publication
    2015

Contents

Theoretical background

  • Definition and Categories of Visual Perception
  • Visual Perception and Dyslexia
  • Figure-Ground Perception
  • Figure-Ground Perception Deficits
  • Compensatory Strategies
  • Figure-Ground Perception and Academic Skills
  • Figure-Ground Perception – Classroom suggestions
  • An Activity Guide For The Development Of Figure-Ground Perception
  • Content Analysis

Practice activities

Level 1: Figure-Ground Activities

  • Recognising individual letters and numbers
  • Recognising an image and matching it to a word that represents it

Level 2: Figure-Ground Activities

  • Recognising an image and matching it to an identical image within a background
  • Completing an image (five options)
  • Completing an image (six options)
  • Recognising two-syllable words (four options)

Level 3: Figure-Ground Activities

  • Completing a drawing with the help of a square-ruled background
  • Completing a drawing independently
  • Recognising three-syllable words (four options)
  • Recognising three-syllable words independently

Interactive games and activities

Age

School-aged children

Author

Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

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