The Effectiveness of a Computerized Program in Developing Visual Perception Skills among Preschool Children with Specific Learning Difficulties

The current research aimed to design an educational computer program that helps develop visual perception skills (visual discrimination, visual closure, and figure-ground discrimination) among children with specific learning difficulties at the preschool level. A pictorial scale was designed to identify children with difficulties in visual perception skills. Five prospective participants from the study’s target group were excluded because their referenced scores exceeded the study’s criteria. Thus, the study’s educational program was designed and used to train a sample of 13 children four to five years old who were affiliated with the Royal Commission Kindergartens in Jubail City, Saudi Arabia. The participating children were trained for a period of no fewer than four weeks, for three days per week. Each training session took two hours, totaling 24 hours of training across the sessions. This study’s results showed statistically significant differences between participants’ average pre-training and post-training scores, suggesting an improvement post-training (p = 0.05, 0.01)