Visual Sense - Making sense of what we see

  • Visual Sensitivity

    Struggling to tolerate information that we see. This could be bright lighting, busy places, eye contact or bright colours.

    To help you can:

    1. Modify lighting

    2. Reduce glare

    3. Clear things from clutter

    4. Tone things down

    5. Ease up on eye contact

  • Visual Seeking

    Those who constantly look at things in the environment such as reflective objects, spinning objects, busy notice boards, light up objects and bright colours. This can make it hard to focus on tasks as you are busy looking at everything else.

  • Visual Perception

    The ability to make sense of the things that we see. There are 7 areas of visual perception:

    1. Visual discrimination - Being able to tell the difference between items/objects/people

    2. Figure Ground - Being able to find objects in a body background

    3. Visual memory - Being able to remember things we have seen

    4. Visual sequential memory - Being able to remember the order of objects/numbers/letters

    5. Visual closure - Being able to tell what an object is when we can only see part of it or it is half completed

    6. Spatial relations - The ability to recognise forms are the same when they are rotated

    7. Form constancy - The ability to match similar forms that may be a different size, colour or rotated