Beyond Eyesight to Insight:
The Advanced Course
9 Contact Hours (.9 AOTA CEUs)
Carl Hillier, OD, FCOVD and Mary
Kawar, MS, OT/L
Advanced Level Course
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The tuition for this 1-day course is $270.00*
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Description:
This experiential workshop invites experienced therapists to explore vestibular-visual processing in greater depth. Participants can expand their clinical reasoning skills and therapeutic strategies for working with clients who demonstrate vision and other sensory processing and motor control challenges through several different learning experiences. They will engage in a review of a vision screening and learn how to administer additional tests that were not included in the basic vision screening examination. Observation of OT/VT in action will be provided by a live demonstration of one or two children being evaluated and co-treated in a clinic setting by an occupational therapist and a developmental optometrist. Videos of children receiving therapy for various issues will help to insure that visual and vestibular deficits can be comprehensively evaluated and ameliorated through collaborative assessment, critical clinical analysis, and optimal intervention strategies. Recent research will be cited to support the information provided in this workshop as well as suggested readings for further study.
Participants MUST have taken the two-day course: From Eyesight to Insight: Visual/Vestibular Assessment and Treatment, as this course will build on information presented in the earlier course. Participants are encouraged to review their previous course handouts and notes prior to attending this workshop.
Suggested Audience: Experienced OTs, PTs and SLPs who have taken the Eyesight to Insight course and who work primarily with diverse pediatric populations.
This course is offered for .9 AOTA CEU's
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate four vestibular-ocular reflex tests and describe the contribution of each of these reflexes to functional performance.
2. Demonstrate three balance tests.
3. Give two specific examples of how VT and OT, PT, or Speech can collaborate on a given client so as to optimize therapeutic outcomes.
4. Describe a visually guided sensory integrative activity for each of the following therapeutic strategies: 1) Adaptation 2) Habituation 3) Substitution.
5. Identify symptoms suggestive of poor saccadic fixations, lack of peripheral awareness, and inability to sustain attention on a task requiring near-far focal attention.
6. Describe three signs and/or symptoms that require immediate referral to an optometrist.
Schedule* (9 contact hours)
Friday Evening:
5:30 Registration
6:00 Review, practice, and discussion of an expanded visual-vestibular assessment
8:00 Adaptation, habituation, and substitution strategies: examples of when and how to employ them appropriately
9:00 Adjourn ED
Saturday:
8:00 Visual and Vestibular Reflex Testing: Expression and Integration Strategies
9:30 Break
10:00 Case demonstration one: OT/VT assessment and treatment
11:30 Lunch on your own
12:30 Case discussion
1:00 Case demonstration two: OT/VT assessment and treatment
2:15 Break
2:30 Case discussion
3:00 Group discussion of challenging issues and collaborative resolutions
3:45 Adjourn
* Topic times may vary; contact hours do not.
Disclosures:
Mary Kawar
• Financial disclosure: Receives a speaking fee from Professional Development Programs.
• Financial disclosure: Receives royalties from Vital Sounds for published materials.
• Non-financial disclosure: Speaker has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Carl Hillier
• Financial disclosure: Receives a speaking fee from Professional Development Programs.
• Financial disclosure: Receives a royalty from Professional Development Programs for products developed.
• Financial disclosure: Receives a royalty from Desert Bay Productions for products developed.
• Non-financial disclosure: Speaker has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Participant comments:
“Enjoyed the intro/review and found it beneficial to process the rest of the presentation.”
“Enjoyed the videos!”
“Very interested in course material. Great speakers. Liked the attention to detail. Liked the seminar format.”
“I really enjoyed Dr. Hillier and Mary Kawar’s info and lecture.”
“Great new ideas for flow and matrix.”
“Loved the clinical cases at the end!!!”
