Rhyme Recognition
Detecting words that share an ending sound — the gateway to phonological awareness.
Building Reading Readiness
Children develop the foundational perceptual skills that support reading at very different rates. Some are ready for formal reading instruction early, while others benefit from additional support as those skills continue developing throughout early childhood.
Gaps in these foundational skills are often difficult to recognize before reading challenges emerge in school.
Perceptuity offers developmentally informed activities that explore the foundational perceptual skills for reading readiness. As children engage with adaptive, game-based activities, Perceptuity builds and updates a personalized skill profile over time. This helps parents and occupational therapists better understand how a child’s perceptual skills are developing throughout early childhood.
Nine Foundational Skills
Each skill is explored through structured, game-based activities. Perceptuity builds and continuously updates a personalized skill profile as children engage with adaptive activities designed to support perceptual development.
Phonological awareness
Syllable Awareness
Perceiving how spoken words break into rhythmic chunks.
Initial Sound Matching
Identifying the first sound of a word — the foundation of phonics.
Visual perceptual awareness
Figure-Ground
Picking out one shape or word from a busy, cluttered background — like finding a specific word on a crowded page.
Visual Discrimination
Noticing small differences between similar shapes — what lets a child tell “b” from “d,” or “was” from “saw.”
Visual Memory
Holding an image in mind briefly — needed to remember a letter long enough to copy or write it.
Visual Sequential Memory
Remembering things in the right order — essential for spelling words and reading letters left to right.
Form Constancy
Recognizing a shape as the same even when its size, color, or font changes — knowing an “A” is an “A” big, small, or in a new typeface.
Spatial Awareness
Understanding how objects relate to one another in space, including direction and orientation — what distinguishes “b,” “d,” “p,” and “q.”
Meet Percy
The calico cat featured throughout Perceptuity’s learning environment, providing a familiar presence across activities and assessments.
Built on Research
Perceptuity’s structured activities are informed by frameworks commonly used by occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and educational psychologists, including the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills (TVPS-4) and the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschool (PALS-PreK).
The Team Behind Perceptuity
Built in collaboration with experts in early childhood development and educational psychology.
Maren Wallon
Chief Executive Officer
B.A. in Cognitive Science Pursuing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia
Sandra Misiaszek
Chief Learning Officer
M.Ed. in Educational Psychology, specializing in orthodidactics and orthopedagogics
Ryan Wallon
Chief Technology Officer
B.S.E. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan
Get in touch
Are you an OT, SLP, educational specialist, or early childhood educator? We'd love your input.
Are you a parent curious about Perceptuity? We'd love to hear from you too.
info@perceptuity.comBased in Athens, GA. Currently in early development.