The Role of Vision Beyond Eyesight
You will learn strategies to collaborate with developmental optometrists and walk away with the ability to:
- Differentiate vision from eyesight and vision screenings from eye examinations
- Identify children and adult with vision problems
- Provide learning procedures to improve visual processing abilities
- And more!
Plus, you'll also receive our Development Processing & Therapy Series absolutely FREE! Expand your knowledge with functional, developmental and behavior approaches to vision evaluations. This 4-part series includes the full spectrum of visual processing therapy:
- Introduction to Developmental Optometry and Basic Visual Efficiency and Visual Processing Skills
- Visual Screening and Treatment: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
- The Connection Between Autism and Vision: Hands-on Demonstrations of Therapeutic Techniques
- Vision Rehabilitation: Interventions for Your Clients with TBI and Concussion
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Visual Efficiency
- The neurodevelopment of eye tracking, accommodation and binocular vision
Visual Processing
- How the eyes interface with the rest of the brain and body
- Vision problems as neurodevelopmental disorders
- Vision problems as sensory processing disorders
- Visual perceptual testing: Standardized and observational
How Developmental Optometry Relates to Occupational Therapy and Other Disciplines
- A. Jean Ayres, Brain Gym and developmental vision
- Collaboration between therapeutic interventions
- Signs and symptoms of undiagnosed or untreated vision disorders
- Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey (CISS)
- Optometric application of lenses and prisms
The Neuroplasticity and Neuroadaptability of the Visual System
- What goes wrong visually, why it goes wrong, and what we can do about it
- Is there an age at which it’s too early or late to intervene?
- Visual problems as early red flags for autism spectrum disorder
- Learning-based vision problems and academic performance
- Post-trauma vision disorder and other problems of acquired brain injury
Hands-on Demonstration of Screening Procedures
- PLRG the penlight red/green standardized convergence insufficiency screening
- Visual tracking and head movement
- Visual tracking and the midline plane
- Near-far focusing flexibility
- Information for referral and collaboration
Overview of Sample Therapeutic Activities
- Nearpoint of convergence and touch
- Physiological diplopia and divided attention
- Hart Chart Saccadic
- Pointer-in-straw in three dimensions
- Central/peripheral awareness
- Press Lites
Leonard J. Press, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, is board-certified in optometric vision therapy by the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. He is a diplomate of the American Academy of Optometry in Binocular Vision and Perception and is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Vision Development & Rehabilitation. A graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, where he completed his residency in Pediatrics and Binocular Vision, Dr. Press served as chief of the pediatric unit at the Eye Institute of the College. He subsequently served for 15 years as chief of the vision therapy service at the State University of New York’s College of Optometry.
Dr. Press is a consultant on visual disabilities for the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is past-president of the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians, and of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. He is current chair of the Pediatrics/Binocular Vision Committee of the American Optometric Associations. Author of three textbooks and over 100 articles in ophthalmic journals, Dr. Press presents continuing education lectures and seminars on vision nationally as well as internationally. He is optometric director of the Vision and Learning Center in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, one of the first sites in the country to be accredited as a private practice residency program for vision therapy and rehabilitation. Learn more about Dr. Leonard Press
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Christine Winter-Rundell, OD, FCOVD, FAAO, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD). Her interests lie in primary eye care for children of all ages, with a special focus on children with vision-related learning disorders or any patients who have had a brain injury. She enjoys co-managing patients with other professionals and frequently works closely with occupational, physical, and speech therapists, psychologists, and pediatricians. Dr. Winter-Rundell graduated with honors with a degree in Biology and minor in Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2000. She attended Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN for her Doctor of Optometry education, followed by a Residency at Nova Southeastern College of Optometry in the area Primary Eye Care with emphasis in Pediatrics. In 2005 she joined The Children’s Eye Center at Cedar Rapids Eye Care. Dr. Winter has been very active in optometric service missions to five different countries in Latin America where her Spanish language fluency was advantageous, and looks forward to sharing that experience with her children. Learn more about Dr. Winter-Rundell
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