Course Description
(5 day course -- 35 hours Continuing Education)
Prerequisite: None
For: Optometrists and Therapists
VT/Visual Dysfunctions teaches a core curriculum of therapy which
consists of a series of procedures which
are not necessarily specific to any one dysfunction
but which together lead to successful, happy and enthusiastic
patients. Vision Therapy 1 is:
Hands On: Individual procedures will be
demonstrated and explained in depth. Your instructor will act as
a
therapist. Participants will
become “patients” during the demonstrations. The instructor will
demonstrate fully
how to
modify the procedures by
changing the loading to adjust the demand levels to precisely the
level needed
to
achieve maximum
development.
Core Techniques: AN Dissociated and Associated
Pointing, AP Rule, Balance Board, Brock String, Cheiroscopic
Tracings, Coin Circles,
Central-Peripheral Saccades, "Ninja Training", Eye Control, Keystone
Fusion Games,
Lightboard, Motor Equivalence,
Overlapping pictures, Tachistoscope, Vectograms, VO Stars, Walking
Rail,
and Wallach Rings to name just a
few.
Management and Administrative Techniques: Our
instructors will share their over 100 years experience in running
a co-management practice and
provide you with the basics to get you started.
Case presentation and information on handling
insurance.
Each participant receives a complete manual of
all VT procedures, homework sheets, procedure grids,
explanations and all materials to
get you up and running immediately.
The VT/Visual Dysfunction course is a prerequisite for the VT/Learning
Related Visual Problems and the
VT/Strabismus & Amblyopia courses. This is usually
the first course taken by vision therapists. The OEP Clinical
Curriculum faculty has been very successful at making
the new therapist comfortable with being in the same class
as more experienced therapists, as well as with
optometrists who are new to behavioral vision care. For a therapist
to attend a course, the normal procedure is that they
may either attend the course with their OD or the OD must have
attended an OEP Clinical Curriculum course at a prior
date.
* Courses begin at 9:00 am each morning and will finish at 5:00 PM.
On the last day of the course we begin at
9:00 am
and generally finish by 3:00 PM. Lunch is included in your tuition.
(NOTE: If you have special
dietary considerations please let us know at the time you make your
reservation.)

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