Occupational therapy

visual perception activities for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) — designed to improve visual attention, discrimination, tracking, and spatial awareness through play and therapy. ⸻ 🧩 1. Visual Discrimination Activities Help the child notice similarities and differences in shapes, colors, and forms. • Sorting by colour or shape or size (buttons, blocks, beads) • Spot the difference worksheets or picture puzzles • Matching identical pictures or objects • Shadow matching – match an object to its shadow or silhouette ⸻ 👀 2. Visual Tracking Activities Improve eye movements and tracking skills. • Follow the light – use a flashlight or laser pointer on the wall in a dark room • Ball rolling games – roll a ball back and forth, encourage eye tracking • Bubble play – track and pop bubbles • Ribbon dancing or scarf play – follow the flowing ribbon visually ⸻ 🔢 3. Visual Memory Activities Enhance recall of visual information. • Memory card games (e.g., matching picture pairs) • “What’s missing?” game – show 3–5 objects, hide one, and ask which is missing • Pattern copying using beads or blocks • Sequencing picture cards (daily routines, stories) ⸻ 🧠 4. Visual-Spatial Relationship Activities Develop understanding of position, direction, and space. • Puzzle completion (shape sorters, jigsaw puzzles) • Obstacle courses – under, over, around, between • Lego or block building from a model • Drawing mazes and connecting dots ⸻ 🎨 5. Visual Closure Activities Help recognize objects even when parts are missing. • Incomplete pictures – guess the object with missing parts • Connect-the-dots drawings • Half-shape matching (complete the missing half) • Hidden picture puzzles ⸻ 🔺 6. Figure-Ground Perception Activities Improve focus on one item among distractions. • I Spy games or hidden-object books • Finding toys in a rice-sand bin • Sorting mixed objects on a busy background • Finding letters or numbers in word searches ⸻ ✏️ 7. Visual Motor Integration Activities Coordinate vision and hand movement. • Tracing lines and shapes • Copying block patterns • Pegboard or lacing cards • Drawing within boundaries or coloring in lines ⸻