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Visual perception and visual-motor integration tests have among their objectives the evaluation of the operations that the brain performs when interpreting and organizing physical stimuli. Visual perceptual skills require adequate maturation prior to and during the development of reading and writing skills. This is why the Frostig DTVP-3 Battery is ideal for this purpose. The Frostig DTVP-3 Visual Perception Assessment Method Test is a test that can be applied from 4 to 12 years of age.

It measures the following processes:

✅ Visual perception: meaning that our central nervous system gives to visual stimuli and sensations.

✅Visumotor integration: Ability to coordinate visual perceptual and motor skills. Example: grabbing a pencil and drawing a straight line.

✅ Hand-Eye Coordination: This test measures the subject's ability to draw straight or curved lines accurately.

✅ Copy: measures the patient's ability to recognize the features of a design and draw it from a previously visualized model.

✅ Figure-Ground: the patient's ability to recognize figures that are hidden in a confusing and complex background.

✅ Visual closure: the patient's ability to recognize a figure that has been drawn incompletely in a given space.

✅ Shape constancy: This subtest measures the subject's ability to recognize figures, letters or shapes written in different sizes, shapes and colors.

All of the above-mentioned processes are directly related to reading, writing and number identification skills, which is why it is an essential test when detecting any type of perceptual difficulty and visual-motor coordination.