Course Description
Length: 2 days Continuing Education
Credits: 14
Prerequisites: None
This course is intended for
optometrists, vision therapists, optometric staff, and allied health
professionals who work
directly with or under the
supervision of optometrists.
Health care providers are identifying patients with autism, pervasive
developmental disorder (PDD), and
Asperger's Syndrome in greater numbers. Many patients
with these conditions have been helped greatly by
behavioral vision care practitioners worldwide. This
course will help you understand these conditions as well as the
role that you can take in helping these patients lead
as normal a life as possible. Alternative therapies, professional
inter-workings, as well as the theories for the
causes of these conditions will all be discussed. The mystery of
the “magic glasses” will be debunked and explained in
detail. Yoked prisms and low plus lenses seem to have
tremendous power in some autistic children to
dramatically alter their ability to make eye contact and to maintain
fixation. A view of how this occurs will be shared as
well as rationales for understanding the role of vision therapy
in helping these children. Behavioral vision care, as
a part of the overall team approach to helping children with
autism, can play a major role in helping this
population achieve higher levels of performance.

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