AAVC Workshop 1 – Vision and Learning

AAVC Workshop 1 - Vision and Learning

Date: 16/08/2024 - 18/08/2024 (AEST)

Venue: Hotel Grand Chancellor, 23 Leichhardt Street, Brisbane, QLD, 4000

Provider: ACBO

Contact: Sarah Edwards, [E] info@acbo.org.au, [P] 03 9614 3400

Activity Outline

This new program of evidence-based education provides a structured process of education for ACBO members looking to significantly expand their knowledge and experience of behavioural vision care. The first module is Vision and Learning, developed by Carmin Hall. 

Any visual dysfunction, whether structural (such as a refractive error or reduced visual acuity), functional (such as accommodative-convergence or oculomotor dysfunction) or related to processing (such as visual analysis or visual motor integration difficulties), can potentially affect learning. This rich evidence-based course explores each of these topics in depth, and presents the relevant literature and research which relates each area of vision to learning.

Completing 24 online modules will equip you with a vast amount of proven science, confirming that vision indeed plays an important role in learning, and that early detection and management of any visual deficits in children is necessary to support optimally efficient learning and reading.

The 3-day face-to-face workshop will involve assimilation of the theory presented in the online modules into all the practical and hands-on aspects, preparing you to use your new-found skills on your first day back at work after the course. You will be introduced to visual processing assessments for different ages, report writing and case studies. A simple Primitive Reflex testing battery will be demonstrated as well as exercises for reflex integration. You will also get to practise many Vision Therapy Activities formulated to support development and learning.

This module, as part of the Accreditation in Advanced Vision Care course, will appeal to vision therapists, optometrists wanting to broaden their scope of practice, and optometrists already well-experienced in the management of binocular vision, paediatrics, visual information processing and vision therapy.

Learning Objectives

• 1.1At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Assess the visual developmental age of the pre-school child • Understand the significance of developmental milestones • Recognise the correlation between certain visual processing skills and educational readiness • Assess the development / maturation of: o Gross motor coordination and balance o Visual spatial o Visual analysis o Visual Motor o Auditory analysis
• 1.2At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Developmental co-ordination o Developmental gross motor skills • Administer vision therapy for these developmental issues to address a patient’s needs
• 1.3At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Identify the symptoms of certain retained primitive reflexes and underdeveloped postural reflexes • Understand the effect of retained primitive reflexes and underdeveloped postural reflexes on vision, learning and behaviour
• 1.4 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Retained primitive reflex integration o Development of postural reflexes o Fine motor and eye-hand coordination • Administer therapy for these developmental issues to address a patient’s needs
• 2.1 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Assess for retained primitive reflexes that may affect the development of certain vision skills. • Assess for underdeveloped postural reflexes that may affect the development of certain vision skills.
• 2.2 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Oculo-motor skills – developmental o Oculo-motor skills for reading • Administer vision therapy for these visual processing issues to address a patient’s needs
• 2.3a At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Recognise the correlation between certain visual processing skills and academic performance particularly in the early school years • Assess the development of age-appropriate visual processing skills, using formal quantitative testing for: o Visual spatial o Visual analysis o Visualisation, speed & span o Visual Motor o Auditory analysis
• 2.3b At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Analyse and interpret the results of tests of visual processing abilities to: o relate these results to learning progress o establish a diagnosis or differential diagnoses o discuss the relevant diagnosis and prognosis with the patient / parent in a manner that they can understand o consider the potential need for developmental vision therapy
• 2.4 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Laterality and directionality o Visualisation • Administer vision therapy for these visual processing issues to address a patient’s needs
• 3.1a At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Assess higher order visual processing skills, using formal quantitative testing for: o Visual spatial o Visual analysis o Visualisation, speed & span o Visual motor o Oculo-motor o Auditory analysis o Reading screening
• 3.1bAt the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Analyse and interpret the results of tests of visual processing abilities to: o relate these results to learning progress o establish a diagnosis or differential diagnoses o discuss the relevant diagnosis and prognosis with the patient / parent in a manner that they can understand o consider the potential need for developmental vision therapy
• 3.2 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Gross motor skills o Bilateral integration o Eye-hand coordination (for writing) • Administer vision therapy for these visual processing issues to address a patient’s needs
• 3.3 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to: • Analyse and interpret the results of tests of visual processing abilities to: o document the relevant diagnosis and prognosis in a report in a manner that a patient or patent can understand o document the relevant diagnosis and prognosis in a report in a manner that is useful to other professionals co-managing the patient o recommend appropriate treatments – lenses or vision therapy
• 3.4 At the completion of this CPD activity participants should be able to:Understand specific therapy procedures including their rationale for treatment, related to: o Improving the speed, span and memory of visual input o Higher order visual processing skills • Administer vision therapy for these visual processing issues to address a patient’s needs • Apply the skills developed in vision therapy to higher level visual strategies

Max CPD hours awarded: 17.5

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