AN OPTOMETRIST LOOKS AT PERCEPTION Session: VISUAL PERCEPTION AND READING

By-Could, Lawrence N. An Optometrist Looks at Perception. Pub Date 1 May 69 Note-9p.; Paper presented at the International Reading Association conference, Kansas City, Mo., Apr. 30-May 1, 1969 EDRS Price MF -$025 HC 40.55 Descriptors -Avditory Perception; Haptic Perception, Kinesthetic Perception, *Perception, *Perceptual Development, Reading Instruction, *Sensory Integration, Visual Perception The relationships of sense modalities included in the broad term "perception" are explored. Vision is a transmission from external world to brain. Ocular mobility and spatial organization abilities are importan't to vision as it is involved in the perceptUal-cognitive process. Kinesthetic and visual behaviors are interrelated -and are supplemented by the haptic modality (sense of touch). Auditory perception produces ;magery that far surpasses the kinesthetic or haptc senses and, in fact, rivals the visual sense as the moior mode of learning. Teaching methods based on these sense modalities should endeavor to present a problem through one modality , and then require a maximum number of modalities to be integrated into the response. Available materials which use this technique are listed. and, references are included.