Assessment of Children With Visually Related LD-1 (F) Flashcards
What is any relatively permanent and consistent change in the perception following practice or experience?
perceptual learning
What refers to the process of organizing and deciphering visual information?
visual perception
What is a disorder in one or more
of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations?
specific learning disability
What are the different areas of visual perceptual skill?
- visual analysis or visual spatial skill
- visual memory
- VMI
What are the aspects that should be observed during testing of visual processing?
- working distance
- head movement
- pencil grip
- motor overflow
- auditory overflow
6 patients approach to task
What are some of the possible patient approaches to a task or learning style?
- substitute processing
- varying speeds and accuracy
- trail and error
What are the scores provided for visual processing analysis?
- standard score (mean of 100)
- percentiles
- age or grade equivalent or perceptual age (avoid if possible)
What is the interquartile range?
25th and 75th percentile
What are some tips for examining kids with ADHD?
- Plan
- Keep it novel
- Remove distractors
- Don’t be afraid to stop
- Give advance warning
- Keep the child’s attention
- Give one direction at a time
- Stay in charge
- Narration of exam
What previous assessments should you ask the parent about whether the patient took?
- IEP
- psycho educational (cognitive ability or achievement)
- audiological, speech, language
- occupational therapy
What are the visual skills efficiency tests for saccadic eye movements?
- DEM test (ages 6 to 14)
- NSUCO (observation)
- SCCO (observation)
- visagraph
- readalyzer
What are the areas of visual analysis or visual spatial skills?
- visual discrimination
- visual-spatial relationships
- visual form constancy
- visual figure-ground
- visual closure
What are the examples of the visual motor integration tests?
- Beery Visual Fine Motor Integration (VMI)
- Spatial Awareness Skills Program (SASP) (age 4 to 10)
- Test of Visual Perceptual Skills (TVPS)
What are the Beery VMI series of tests?
- Beery Visual Fine Motor Integration (VMI)
- Beery VMI visual perception
- Beery VMI motor coordination
What test has visual memory tests and what are the subsets?
- TVPS visual memory subset
2. TVPS visual sequential memory subset