Viisual Perception - please help me understand this OT report

[Borka]

I've got DS's OT report and I'm a bit confused. He was first assessed using the Beery Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration & is on the 19th percentile for the main part of the test and the supplementary Motor Coordination test, and only on the 1st percentile for the supplementary Visual Perception test.

Because this score was so low, he was then assessed using the Gardner Test of Visual Perception Skills (non motor) and scored much higher in almost all areas:
Visual Discrimination 84th percentile
Visual Memory 91st percentile
Visual Spatial Relationships 99th percentile
Visual Form Constancy 50th percentile
Visual Sequential Memory 75th percentile
Visual Figure Ground 9th percentile
Visual Closure 9th percentile

So my question is, how can there be such a difference in scores between the 2 different visual perception tests?

Wow.
Seriously confusing!
My guess is that the Beery 'supplementary Visual Perception Test' still has a motor element in it.

So to separate out visual skills from any distortion caused by the impact of motor skills or visual-motor skills, they did the Gardner.

The good news is that the visual memory and most visual skills are high.

My dd had problems with visual figure ground. When she was little she would look at a picture of a horse in front of a tree and ask 'why is there a tree on its back?'. She never likes jig saws. Now she is older she finds it hard to see the thing she is looking for against a jumbled background.

I would have to google visual closure!

I fear I can take you only this little step along the way. Sorry

Ah, that makes sense - in the Beery test he had to copy shapes etc, but the Gardner one is just pointing /verbally identifying. Thank you!

Visual closure is being able to identify the whole of something from just part of it, so for example working out what a letter is if you can only see the top half of it.

Enlightening, thanks. The two go together then. dd also had trouble with the block test which was where a picture of different shapes made out of 5 lego blocks had to be recreated in real life, and she couldn't work out what must be behind 'out of sight'.