It’s an ability to identify the foreground from the background in a visual presentation. Impairments in this area of visual perception may interfere with identification and locating specific pictures, symbols, letters, numbers or words in a book, a map, a classroom board, or on other visual material.
- Child may struggle with writing and reading activity if he has poor visual figure ground perception skill if he represents following behaviors.
- Child shows a poor ability to quickly localize a specified word or sentence on a page.
- Child display confusion and fatigue quickly when looking at busy visual displays or pages.
- Child has difficulty copying from one source to another, (from blackboard to notebook)
- Child has difficulty with hidden picture activities.
- Child struggles when finding objects in a drawer.