Visual perception is the ability to perceive and interpret visual information surrounding us. The fundamental principles of visual processing comprise similarity, proximity, enclosure, and figure and ground. Similarity allows for the lumping together of objects with shared visual properties, which makes significant correlations between different numbers and sets.
Proximity is where two elements are close to one another resulting in a strong similarity indication. Proximity also allows for the establishment of swift correlations by making it easy to process information perceived. Enclosure takes images a step further through the actualization of the perceived objects and simplifies ideas in close range. Figure and ground direct attention to a specific piece of information.
The visual processing challenge with dyslexic children associates with the student being prone to transposing or prone to reversing letters. The outcome is that the child has difficulty locating words on a page, and their tendency to skip over words increases. However, when compared to language, recall and rhyming are less likely to be affected.