Test Of Visual-Perceptual Skills

The Test of Visual-Perceptual Skills ( TVPS) is an instrument designed to determine a child's visual-perceptual strengths and weaknesses based on non-motor visual-perceptual testing. Even though this instrument is widely used, aspects of its validity have yet to be determined. Thirty-nine regular elementary school children were administered the TVPS and a battery of additional standardized test of visual information processing and perceptual skills. The Visual Discrimination subtest was the only subtest of the TVPS to correlate significantly with age and the standard
discrimination test. This study raises questions about the validity of the TVPS. For the present, caution is urged if diagnostic decisions are resting significantly on evidence from TVPS testing alone.