Perceptual training activities are described for use in the regular primary or intermediate class that will not disrupt the academic program. Materials and procedures are considered for developing visual and haptic abilities, visual memory and figure-ground discrimination, and auditory, olfactory, taste, and motor skills. (CL)

Five children diagnosed as having a perceptual problem as revealed by the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test received special tutoring to help develop their visual discrimination abilities. The six-week program for teaching the concept of shapes employed kinesthetic, visual, tactile, and verbal processes. (CS)

The article points out the importance of deciding what kind of perceptual problem a child has and providing the appropriate kind of perceptual motor program. (CD)

Among findings of a review of articles by British occupational therapists are the following: (1) major influences include Ayres, Cruickshank, Frostig, Kephart, Van Witsen and Mesker; (2) ideas underlying child assessment and treatment techniques are mainly empirically based; (3) the sensory integration approach is less well known than in the…

Discusses importance of creating positive self image by provision of tasks with realistic goals where child is assured of success and recognition. (Author/CJ)

A study was conducted to determine the relationship between visual perception-visual motor deficits and reading achievement of remedial readers, and to analyze the performance of various subjects in the three classifications of perceptual dysfunction to determine if significant differences existed among them. Subjects were 102 remedial readers…

Discussed is use of the trampoline to remediate perceptual handicaps in learning disabled children. (DB)

The learning wall system, which consists primarily of a special wall used instead of a screen for a variety of projection purposes, is described, shown diagrammatically, and pictured. Designed to provide visual perceptual motor training on a level that would fall between gross and fine motor performance for perceptually handicapped children, the…

The paper reports on the evaluation techniques and remediation programing for children (3 to 12 years old) with sensory-perceptual-motor dysfunction. A model for ordering assessment information and selecting therapeutic remediaton activities is considered. A sample diagnostic sheet outline is included. (Author/SBH)

Discussed are theoretical and treatment aspects of perceptual motor dysfunction and rehabilitation in 4- to 12-year-old academically failing children involved in a 3-year investigation at the University of Kansas. The program is said to stress increasing the amount of stimulation received by sensory receptors of the vestibular, reflex, and haptic…

The study was designed to experimentally determine the rate of growth as it pertained to visual motor development of an experimental and a control group by using a resource teacher as the vehicle to administer the remediation. The study lasted for 7 months. Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration was administered in a pretest and…

The paper suggests that the use of a single visual-motor test, (here, the Winter Haven Perceptual Forms Test) as a screening device for visual-motor difficulties in the first grade is questionable. (Author)