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Build and Describe In our Piece by Piece series, we spent a great deal of time exploring what can happen when a patient is given a collection of simple parquetry blocks and asked to create. We looked at organization, symmetry, spatial relationships, planning, flexibility, visual discrimination, and the integration of individual pieces into a larger whole. Now, I want to

When the Pieces Come Together Over the course of this series, three simple parquetry blocks have asked us to consider much more than whether a patient can copy a pattern. They have given us opportunities to observe how the patient establishes a reference, organizes parts into a whole, responds when familiar relationships change, compares two spatial fields, and uses feedback

Spatial Correspondence In Part Five, the square was tilted, requiring the patient to preserve the identity of the shape while reorganizing the complete pattern around a diagonal reference. This represented a significant conceptual and developmental change. The patient could no longer depend exclusively upon the familiar horizontal and vertical framework established during the earlier levels. Part Six introduces a different