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Insight - Approaches for Visual Perceptual Difficulties
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Report Required For: |
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Child's forename: |
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Child's surname: |
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Gender: |
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Date of Birth: |
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Reference Number: |
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Does the child walk independently? |
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Question Inventory
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Does your child trip or bump into things on the floor? |
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Does your child find it hard to walk down stairs? |
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Does your child trip or seem not to notice when pavements go up or down? |
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Does your child seem to 'get stuck' at the top of a slide or hill? |
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Does your child look down when they cross floor boundaries, for example where lino meets carpet? |
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Does your child leave food on their plate? If so, is this on the near or far side? |
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Does your child leave food on their plate? If so, is this on the left or right side? |
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Does your child have difficulty stepping into the bath, apart from any problems with balance? |
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Does your child find it hard to find the beginning of a line or the next word when reading, or miss pictures or words on one side of a page (left /right)? |
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Does your child move out in front of traffic (coming from left/ right / both)? |
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Does your child bump into door frames or partly open doors (left/right/both)? |
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Does your child have difficulty seeing things from a moving vehicle? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot things that are moving quickly, such as children or small animals? |
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Does your child find it hard to see moving water i.e. to fill a cup? |
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Does your child find it hard to follow a cursor on the computer screen? |
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Does your child avoid watching fast moving TV programmes, and prefer to watch slow moving TV programmes? |
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Does your child find it hard to catch a ball? |
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When walking, does your child hold onto your clothes, tugging down? |
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Does your child find uneven ground hard to walk over? |
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Does your child bump into low furniture, for example a small table? |
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Does your child get angry if furniture is moved? |
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Does your child explore floor boundaries (for example, where lino meets a carpet) with their foot before crossing it or find floor boundaries difficult to cross? |
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Does your child reach incorrectly for objects (i.e. reaches beyond or around the object or when picking it up, grasp incorrectly, missing or knocking the object over)? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot something pointed out in the distance? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot a close friend or relative standing in a group? |
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Does your child have difficulty playing team games with a lot of players, especially if there are a lot of players and everyone is moving? |
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Does your child have difficulty finding an item on supermarket or cupboard shelf e.g. finding the cereal or biscuits? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot an item of clothing in a pile of clothes? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot the toy they want in a full toy box, shoe in a box of shoes etc? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot objects when they are on a similar background, such as a white tee shirt on a white sheet? |
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Does your child get lost in places where there is a lot to see, e.g. in a crowded shopping centre? |
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Does your child find copying words or drawings time consuming and difficult? |
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Does your child have difficulty reading crowded text on paper or on a computer screen, but can cope better if some of the text is covered or taken away? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot letters on a keyboard but knows the alphabet? |
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Does your child sit closer to the television than about 30 cm? |
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Does your child find it difficult to keep to task for more than 5 minutes, or after being distracted do they find it difficult to get back to what they were doing? |
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Does your child react angrily when other children cause distractions? |
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Does your child bump into things when they are walking and talking at the same time? |
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Does your child miss objects that are obvious to you because they are different from their background and seem to 'pop out' e.g. a bright ball in the grass? |
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Does your child get upset in busy places, such as supermarkets or shopping centres? |
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Does your child find it difficult to recognise close relatives in real life? |
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Does your child find it hard to recognise close relatives from photographs? |
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Does you child mistakenly identify strangers as people known to them? |
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Does your child have difficulty understanding the look on your face? |
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Does your child have difficulty naming common colours? |
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Does your child have difficulty naming basic shapes such as squares, triangles and circles? |
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Does your child find it hard to recognising well known objects such as the family car, classroom door? |
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Does your child find it hard to find their way around a well known environment, for example school? |
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Does your child find it hard to recognise an object if it is partially hidden or viewed from an unusual angle (such as a shoe under the bed with only the toe showing)? |
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Does your child find it hard to spot which shoe is right and which shoe is left? |
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Does your child find it hard to recognise people, or words, or objects if they are changed in any way, for example font of text, hairstyle? |
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Does your child find it difficult to identify where sound is coming from, for example if they shout for you in the house do you have to clearly tell them which room you are in, as they are unable to work out where you are from your voice alone? |
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