Patent
1977-08-26
1980-07-08
Grieb, William H.
G09B 1700
Patent
active
042110181
ABSTRACT:
Visual perception and related skills are tested to assess the level of a person's prerequisite skills for reading. An apparatus is operated by a qualified examiner to generate visual line patterns that the child must recall and reproduce. The testing apparatus comprises a control box and a display panel interconnected by a multi-wire cable. Two of eight control buttons (switches) spatially arranged in an eight-pointed star, are selectable by the examiner to generate a moving line pattern on the display which may be any one of a number of patterns moving between predetermined points on the display corresponding to the points of the star. The line patterns on the display each progress from a point of the star, to the center of the star and out to a second preselected point to thereby generate 45.degree., 90.degree., 135.degree. or 180.degree. patterns. A control is provided so that the patterns can be generated at different rates of say 0.25, 0.50, or 1.0 second per pattern. The testing procedure takes place in stages with the child being required to reproduce a single line pattern, one of a number of different patterns, and more than one pattern. Preferably a total of 26 different test categories are to be recorded, and the examiner evaluates the test results with the aid of scoring templates to determine scores for basic pattern reproduction, spatial orientation, line quality, directionality, mental processing time, visual short term memory, and visual sequencing memory.
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DeVoid Robert R.
Hodson William A.
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