Visual Skills
PERCEPTUAL & MOTOR SKILLS AFFECT LEARNING, INTERACTING WITH OTHERS & RESPONSES
VISUAL PERCEPTUAL SKILLS are the skills that a child uses to make sense of what he or she sees.
VISUAL MOTOR SKILLS are the body's actions to respond to the visual information being processed in the brain.
The eyes send visual information to the brain, and then the brain needs to INTERPRET the information, COMMUNICATE with other areas of the brain, and ORGANIZE the information to make sense of it all for a proper response.
Visual skills are essential for everything from:
Navigating our world
Reading
Writing
Protective responses
Safety
Balance
Coordination
Manipulating items
Visual perception and visual motor skills are made up of a complex combination of various skills for LEARNING, INTERACTING, and RESPONDING to the world around us.
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Visual perceptual skills enable someone to make sense of and interpret what they are seeing.
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spatial awareness, body awareness, temporal awareness and directional awareness
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Visual Motor skills refer to the ability to translate a visual image, or a visual plan, into an accurate motor action.