National ACBO Conference “Connect 2024” – Patient and Practice Success

National ACBO Conference "Connect 2024" - Patient and Practice Success

Date: 6/07/2024 - 7/07/2024 (AEST)

Venue: Crowne Plaza Gold Coast, 2807 Gold Coast Highway, Surfers Paradise, QLD, 4217

Provider: ACBO

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

Activity Outline

The National ACBO Conference " Connect 2024" Patient & Practice Success will be held on the Gold Coast on the 6th / 7th July 2024.  The keynote speakers for the National ACBO Conference are Dr Brenda Montecalvo and Dr Angela Peddle. 
With Dr Montecalvo’s experience and knowledge in many areas we have expanded the education program to include presentations, and in some cases workshops, on the following:

• Building Visual Skills Needed for Math Success

• Building Visual Skills Needed for Handwriting Success

• Assessment of Strabismus

• Treatment of Strabismus

• Stroke: Right Brain, Left Brain and Brainstem

• Intrinsic Retinal Ganglion Cells and Light Therapy

• Autism and Optometric Care

Dr Angela Peddle will provide a program of 2 hours of information and a 2 hour workshop on vision therapy planning:

Vision Therapy Sequencing: Planning for Success
The Vision Therapy Sequencing and Planning course provides foundational background about Visual Development across Cognitive, Physical, and Psycho-social spheres. Discussion on Skeffington's Four Circles in order to understand the person as a whole and build upon existing schemata. We then delve into how to sequence therapy sessions to tailor each patient's program for success. The workshop is an interactive group activity planning actual VT cases, live. Groups will develop novel vision therapy activities and results will be shared to the group for many take-home pearls that can be put into practice right away.

Learning Objectives

• 1.1 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1.Characterise development related to handwriting. 2.Describe how handwriting difficulties develop for the school aged child. 3.Depict how developing certain visual skills can aid handwriting.
• 1.2 Participants will be able to: 1.Express an understanding of visual development, including its association with cognitive, physical 2.Explain the association of visual development and psycho-social development 3.Review the visual process and hierarchical visual processing in the human brain 4.Relate Skeffington’s 4 circles to planning successful therapy 5.Restate the principles of developing vision therapy sequencing 6.Appraise different systems for developing vision therapy programs
• 1.3a On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1 Explain the main principles of VT, including how neuroplasticity is at play 2 Review vision therapy techniques for each stage of vision therapy, beginning with primitive reflex integration 3 Illustrate vision therapy techniques for higher order visual processing
• 1.3b On completion of this session participants will be able to: 4 Practise the vision therapy activities of Gross Motor/Visual Motor, Bilateral Activities, Central Fixation Activities 5 Perform vision therapy activities of Ocular Motor Activities, Accommodative Activities, Vergence Activities, Higher order Perceptual Activities 6 Role play sequencing a Vision Therapy case using the guidance from the lectures
• 1.4 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1. Recall the current demographics of autism.2 Practise to increase success when assessing individuals with autism.3.Employ pearls for designing an optometric vision therapy plan that will result in better outcomes.
• 2.1 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1.Relate the various types of strabismus2.Apply new techniques for application of bi-nasal occlusion3.Discuss what assessment tools are specifically valuable for assessing strabismus.4.Describe how to prescribe lenses, prism and/or occlusion for strabismus
• 2.2.1 On completion of this session participants will be able to: Express how to create a treatment plan for esotropia2.Illustrate how to create a treatment plan for exotropia3.Recall how to create a treatment plan for hypertropia4.Review specific cases related to strabismus
• 2.2.2 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1. Recall the different types of stroke.2.Employ clinical pearls for assessment of patients with stroke.3.Report right, left, and brainstem stroke differences.4.Pescribe a treatment plan to help patients with stroke achieve their goals
• 2.3 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1. Recall the history of phototherapy treatment.2.Describe newly discovered photoreceptor cells and their mechanism of action.3.Discuss how the different frequencies influence the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGC).4.Relate new evidence for ipRGC to current syntonic phototherapy treatment.
• 2.4 On completion of this session participants will be able to: 1.Recall which visual skills are important for math.2.Review how to assess visual skills important for math.3.Illustrate how to help patients develop visual skills for math.

Max CPD hours awarded: 11

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