Visual perception: its relation to beginning reading

In the light of these facts, it was the purpose of this paper to focus on the basic learning skills of perception as they develop in the young child and the relation of these skills to a successful start in reading. Although the writer\u27s prime interest is in visual perception as needed in the primary grades, much of the literature dealing with visual perception treats of the early development and maturational levels of visual perception. In conjunction with this review of literature the author evaluated group tests of visual perception for beginning readers