Visual Closure is the skill which enables the child to imagine or visualize the whole when presented with incomplete information or partial picture. Child with good visual closure skill can make sense of what he has seen even if it’s partly hidden, as he doesn’t have to see and process every fine detail to recognize to identify something.
In school, a child needs visual closure skills to:
- Make sense of words on a smudged page.
- Recognize an object even when he can only see part of it.
- Find a missing item when it is partly hidden help him read more fluently.
- Quickly recognize words by their shape or general arrangement of letters without paying too much attention to each individual letter
Child with poor visual closure skills:
- Has trouble finding items if part of it is hidden.
- Has trouble pulling the correct book or paper from a stack.
- Needs extra time to sound out words he or she has already learned.
- Has trouble putting together jigsaw puzzles.
- Has trouble with games that require guessing an item based on a close-up photo of it.