Leonard J. Press – Visual Development Processing Therapy Series

Dr. Leonard Press This course will teach you how to distinguish visual efficiency from visual processing and provide screening tools that can help identify visual problems. You will also see examples of procedures that can be used to assist patients with difficulty visual processing. This training will prepare you to be an expert in all areas related to vision therapy.Visual Efficiency

• Neurodevelopment in eye tracking, accommodation, and binocular sight

Visual Processing

• How the eyes interact with the rest of your brain and body
• Vision problems are 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, developmental vision
• Collaboration among therapeutic interventions
• Undiagnosed and untreated vision disorders: Signs and symptoms
• Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey – CISS
• Optometric use of prisms and lenses

Neuroplasticity and Neuroadaptability are two of the characteristics of the Visual System

• What’s wrong visually? Why it happens and what can be done about it
• Is there an age at which it’s too early or late to intervene?
• Visual Problems that are early warning signs of autism spectrum disorder
• Learning-Academic performance and vision problems
• Post-Trauma vision disorder, and other symptoms of acquired brain injuries

Hands-Demonstration of Screening Methods

• PLRG The penlight red/green standardized screening for convergence insufficiency screening
• Visual Tracking and monitoring head movement
• Visual Tracking and the midline plane
• Near-far focusing flexibility
• Information for collaboration and referral

An Overview of Some Examples of Therapeutic Activities

• Nearpoint of convergence & touch
• Physiological diplopia, divided attention
• Hart Chart Saccadic
• Pointer-In-Straw in three dimensions
• Central/peripheral awareness
• Press Lites

Vision is our primary sense of learning. However, not all eye doctors can provide it.-Depth testing for functional and developmental vision problems, and the appropriate treatment, such as vision therapy. Developmental Optometrists’ approach to vision care is directed at correcting existing vision problems and enhancing visual abilities. 20/20 vision is not perfect. The test doesn’t evaluate vision skills such as visual perceptual and eye coordination, eye focusing, eye teaming or coordination, and eye movement. Once you have an understanding of these basic skills, and their impact on development, you’ll be able to better identify those patients and students whose academic and therapeutic progress has been delayed as a result, and offer potential solutions to these roadblocks.

The visual system is responsible for more than 80% of our learning. One in ten children have a visual impairment that hinders their learning. Over half of these patients will be missed in standard screenings. To identify patients who have visual processing and visual efficiency problems, learn the best screening tools and history checklists. It will help you to better identify and provide therapeutic intervention. This will lead to more positive outcomes for your patients, academically, and therapeutically.

People with autism have difficulty processing and responding to information from their senses, including their most dominant sense — the visual system. It can also happen in Sensory Disorders. Processing ADHD and disorder. Through the first-You will be able to see therapeutic techniques in action and learn from experts how they can improve the coordination of central and peripheral vision for better outcomes for clients suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Vision should be part of any rehabilitation for patients suffering from brain injury. Visual problems are common after brain injuries or concussions. The visual pathway is responsible for the majority of brain wiring. Visual deficits can cause significant difficulties with reading, mobility, balance, and other functions that can hinder your clients’ ability to return to their normal level of independence and function. Neuroplasticity exists in the visual system. This is evident after learning basic neurophysiology.-You will be better equipped to meet the needs of these patients by understanding anatomy.