

A child who has trouble perceiving the form of the letters, syllables or words, will have difficulties in learning the alphabet or in learning to read. Form perception is the ability of the human mind and senses to perceive the shapes of physical objects and outlines observed in the environment.

A child with poor form perception is highly likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability, since almost all learning activities require some type of form perception, most importantly the ability to read. The law of proximity posits that when we perceive a collection of objects, we will see objects close to each other as forming a group.

Perception is an important meditative cognitive process through which persons make interpretations of the stimuli’s or situation they are faced with. Form perception is one of the most basic visual discriminations acquired by humans in childhood. a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. In social psychology, the term 'person perception' refers to the different mental processes that we use to form impressions of other people. The perception process is a sequence of steps that begins with receiving stimuli from the environment and ends with your interpretation of those stimuli.
