Below is a description of some domains school based occupational therapists address, followed by links to free websites with interactive games and exercises that can be used to help develop these skills.  This is for informational purposes only. The activities described are some examples of ways to build each skill, please refer to your pediatrician and/or occupational therapist for activities that will benefit your student based on their unique needs.

Visual perception is the term used to describe the visual skills needed to understand, evaluate and interpret what is seen. There are many subcomponents involved in visual perception. 

Subcomponents of visual perception:

Figure ground 

Activities to support the development of this skill: hidden pictures, word find puzzles.

Free activities on the web

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/finding-bugs.html

http://toytheater.com/word-find-1/

https://www.highlightskids.com/games

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/figure-ground/

Form constancy 

Activities to support the development of this skill: tangram puzzles, covering parts of words or pictures and uncovering slowly having the student try to guess the letter/picture before it is completely uncovered.

Free activities on the web

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/constancy/

https://toytheater.com/pattern-blocks/

Spatial relationships/position in space 

Activities to support the development of this skill: jigsaw puzzles, following direction games such as Twister, moving items on a grid, whole body movement games requiring movements north-south-east-west, step by step drawings following verbal directions for placement of lines/curves/shapes.

Free activities on the web

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/direction-nsew-.html

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/spatial/

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2b51fd8eac32&pieces=24

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2264d4fe0b68&pieces=24

Visual closure 

Activities to support the development of this skill: finish drawings or letters when given an incomplete picture, puzzles.

Free activities on the web

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/closure/

Visual discrimination

Activities that help support the development of this skill: spot the difference games.

Free activities on the web

https://toytheater.com/different/

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/discrimination/

Visual memory 

Activities that help support the development of this skill: visual memory puzzles, show a picture or image for 5-10 seconds then remove the image and ask the student about specific details in the image.

Free activities on the web

https://toytheater.com/visual-memory/

https://eyecanlearn.com/perception/memory/

Visual scanning and visual tracking 

Activities that help support the development of this skill: mazes, visual tracking exercises, finding target letters and words in an image or grid, word searches

Free activities on the web

https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/mazes.html

https://eyecanlearn.com/tracking/fixation/

https://thewordsearch.com/