Wrentham Public Schools Visual Perceptual/ Visual Motor Skills

Visual Perceptual/ Visual Motor Skills

Apps for Visual Perceptual/ Visual Motor Skills

The apps listed below are some of the best apps to use when appropriate. Remember that all kids are different and all have specific needs, so these recommendations may not work for every child or individual.

Vision Tap - This free IOS app is a great one for addressing visual processing and visual efficiency skills. Visual tracking, visual scanning, and oculo-motor skills are challenged with this one!
All About Shapes - This free app is available on IOS and is a shape drawing app. Users can draw and identify shapes.
Broom, Broom - This free IOS app allows children to draw paths for the vehicles in the game to drive on, building eye-hand coordination, motor planning, visual memory, and precision of fine motor skills.
Visual Memory - is a free app available on Google Play. The game is designed to develop visual memory and improve attention. Users can find the image that appears at each level.
Memory Game - is another free app on Google Play. The game is just like the classic concentration game, helping users to build visual memory skills.
Sorting and Learning Game 4 Kids - This app is available on Google Play and challenges users to categorize and match themed objects while helping to build visual attention, visual memory, and focus with a concentration on visual perception.
Visual Attention Therapy Life - is an app available on Google Play. The free app allows users to address and build visual scanning, visual memory, and visual attention. It also helps rehab professionals to assess for neglect and provide more efficient and effective therapy for attention deficits.
Sensory Baby Toddler Learning - This Google Play app is great for younger kids as they work on cause and effect and develop hand eye coordination skills.
Connecting Dots is Fun - This free IOS app allows users to work on visual perceptual skills such as visual discrimination, form constancy, figure-ground and visual processing skills of tracking and scanning. Users create dot-to-dot activities in the app.
Alphabet Puzzles For Toddlers - This Google Play app helps younger children work on letter identification and letter recognition. The letter learning app is a great app for preschoolers or toddlers. The visual perceptual app allows children to address form constancy, visual discrimination, figure ground, and other visual perceptual skills.
iMazing - In this free IOS app, users can complete maze activities while challenging visual perception and visual motor skills.
Skill Game - This free app is available on Android. The game allows users to draw lines to connect numbers while building eye-hand coordination, precision, motor planning, visual memory, and more.
On the Line - This IOS app is great for working on visual motor skills using a stylus.
Squiggles - This free app is a great one to work on pre-writing skills. Users can draw lines and figures and watch as they become animated.

Other Ways to Work on Visual Perceptual/ Visual Motor Skills at Home

Puzzles: Jigsaw puzzles, inset puzzles, or floor puzzles.
Maze Books & Dot-to-Dots
Hidden Picture Searches: Look for objects in “I Spy” books or online printable pages.
Building with Legos or Blocks: You build something and have your child copy what you built.
Drawing or Copying Designs
Playing “I Spy” Around the House
Matching & Memory Games: Matching cards, bingo, or memory games
Sorting Activities: Sort toys, buttons, or coins by size, color, or shape
Beading and Pattern Copying: String beads in a repeated pattern and ask your child to copy it
Outdoor Chalk Games: Draw hopscotch, shapes, or obstacle courses
Dot Sticker Patterns: Make a simple pattern using dot stickers and have your child recreate it.
Cutting on Lines & Shapes: Following straight, curved, or zig-zag lines with scissors.
Tangrams or Shape Puzzles: Fitting shapes into outlines or building pictures with tangrams builds spatial reasoning and visual closure skills.