(SVPSS) Slosson Visual Perceptual Skill Screener
Bradley Erford
The SVPSS allows the conversion of raw scores to standard scores, percentile ranks, interpretive ranges and age-equivalents for each subtest individually. All three subtests can be combined into a Total Standard Score and percentile rank. Standard error of measurement ranges are also provided. The Slosson Visual Perceptual Skills Screener (SVPSS) was designed to quickly and accurately measure the specific development of early visual-perceptual skills by assessing the primary areas of discrimination, figure-ground and closure. The SVPSS can be used to identify students who may need deeper evaluations and for tentative use in psycho-educational decision-making process. The accuracy with which a child detects similarities and differences in pictures, shapes and letters allows a student to detect small differences between similarly-shaped letters such as b, d, p, and q, or m, n, u, and w.
Each 20 item subtest is an important component of visual-perception, visual processing and pre-reading skills. It can be administered by psychologists, learning specialists, educational diagnosticians, resource specialists, reading specialists, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, teachers, counselors and other specialists.
SVPSS Subtests:
• Visual Discrimination
• Visual Figure-Ground
• Visual Closure
Ages: 8 years to Adult
