Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-3)
What It Measures
The DTVP-3 measures how a child makes sense of what they see — and, separately, how well they can act on it with a pencil. Those are different skills, and a child who struggles to copy a shape may be having trouble seeing it accurately, drawing it accurately, or both.
Five subtests pull the two apart. Eye-Hand Coordination and Copying require drawing. Figure-Ground, Visual Closure, and Form Constancy require only pointing or choosing, so a child with poor motor control is not penalised. Scores combine into three composites: Motor-Reduced Visual Perception, Visual-Motor Integration, and General Visual Perception. Comparing the first two is the point — a gap between them tells a therapist where to aim intervention.
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Additional Notes
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Learn More: The three composites have no floor or ceiling effects, which is one of the changes from the DTVP-2