Visual, Visual-Motor, Visual Perception Assessments

Students must not only be able to "see" visual information, but also to analyze, interpret, and respond to their environment in accordance with that information. Occupational therapists analyze the student's visual challenges that may be impacting their ability to complete classroom activities (e.g., copying, taking notes), to complete homework, to participate in the playground or during meal time.

This list is by no means exclusive of common assessments that evaluate visual, visual-motor, and visual perceptual skills in schools.

Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (Beery VMI)

Type: Paper & pencil test
Key Areas Assessed: Visual-motor integration
Age Range: 2-8 years old
Description: Standardized tool used to assess visual motor integration deficits in 3 subtests: visual motor integration, motor coordination, and visual perception.
- a booklet for each subtest

Test of Visual-Motor Skills (TVMS)

Type: Paper & pencil test
Key Areas Assessed: Visual-motor skills
Age Range: 3-90+ years old
Description: Standardized tool used to test visual motor skills by examining how a client copies a geometric design. Distortions and inaccuracies in copied designs help identify deficits in visual perception, motor planning, and execution.
Latest edition: 3rd ed.

Motor-Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT)

Type: Multiple-choice (images booklet)
Key Areas Assessed: Visual perceptual skills without requiring motor response.
Age Range: 4-80+ years old
Description: Standardized tool used to assess visual perceptual skills in 5 areas: spacial relationships, figure-ground discrimination, visual discrimination, visual closure, and visual memory.
Latest Edition: 4th ed.

Test of Visual Perceptual Skills (TVPS)

Type: Multiple-choice format (images booklet)
Key Areas Assessed: Visual perceptual skills in seven subtests: visual discrimination, visual memory, spatial relationships, form constancy, sequential memory, figure-ground, and visual closure.
Age Range: 5-21 years old
Description: Standardized tool used to assess perceptual abilities without requiring a motor response. 18 items in each of the 7 areas.
Latest edition: 4th ed.

Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP)

Type: Multiple-choice (images booklet)
Key Areas Assessed: Visual perceptual & visual-motor skills.
Age Range: 4-13 years old
Description: Standardized tool used to assess visual motor/perceptual skills in 5 areas: eye-hand coordination, copying, figure-ground, visual closure, and form constancy.
- Subtests results are combined to form three composites: Motor-reduced Visual Perception, Visual-Motor Integration, and General Visual Perception
Latest Edition: 3rd ed.

Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities (WRAVMA)

Type: Paper & pencil test + pegboard
Key Areas Assessed: Drawing (Visual Motor), Matching (Visual-Spatial), and Pegboard (Fine Motor).
Age Range: 3-17 years old
Description: Standardized test to assess visual-spatial, fine motor skills, and integrated visual motor skills.
- A Visual-Motor Integration Composite score can be calculated when all three subtests are used together