Document Type : Research Paper

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Visual perception is interring predations of the sensuous stimulation, which is received by visual system, and it is one of the essential processes of brain. It plays one of the important roles in acquiring reading ability . A research regarding relationship between dyslexia (reading disability) and deficiency in visual perception among 120 both girls and boys in elementary school (grade 1 &2) by cluster method. For selection of this student a check list from symptoms of child dyslexic has been used. To be sure regarding student's natural intelligence, an intellectual test has been done. Then frostig visual perception test Has carried. This test has another five smaller tests that evaluates: 1) Eye-hand coordination ability, 2) Figure ground perception, 3) Visual constancy, 4) Position in space and 5) Spatial relation. This research revealed that there is a meaningful relation between dyslexia and visual perception deficit. Also this relation in and the skills of figure ground perception and position in space perception whit dyslexia is seen, but there isn't any relation between dyslexia and the skills of eye-hand coordination, visual constancy and spatial relation. Also deficiency in visual perception in girls more than boys causes dyslexia.

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