Children with perceptual problems must work harder to get less information from the environment.
By filling in the dots you didn't have to deal with each one individually--a horrendous task. You probably ignored also (included in the ground) the small lines in the interior. Hence, they didnêt require such intense processing.
For those children whose perceptual processes are less efficient, the world is a much busier place. Unfortunately much of the "busy" stimuli is worthless and consuming in terms of both energy and time.
The examples we have given here were mostly visual (because that is easier to present in this media) but the perceptual principles underlying them apply equally well to all modalities.
In the next section we will zero in on some of the perceptual skills that are particularly important in the Visual Modality alone.
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