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• Recognize the anatomy of the visual system in relation to the motor and auditory systems and how they work together to affect and rehabilitate visual issues
• Determine functional movement, reflexes, and righting reactions and the influences on reading, handwriting, and play
• Identify quick and easy ways to detect visual challenges in a child through his or her productivity and functional responses in various locations
• Implement the treatment for parallel pathway learning by utilizing movement and balance
• Discover positioning and its effect on visual processing, focus, eye teaming, and hand-eye speed

ANATOMY OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM

• Pathway of sight
  • parallel pathways and the LGN
    • parvocellular retinal ganglion cells
    • magnocellular retinal ganglion cells
  • pathway overlap and short circuits (Dyslexia Theory)
• Primary visual areas
• Secondary visual areas
• Interpretation of these areas

 

VISUAL MOTOR INTEGRATION IN THE BRAIN

• Primary motor pathway
• Cortical interactions between the motor system and the visual system
• Secondary visual area interaction

 

POSITIONING, MOVEMENT, AND THE EFFECTS ON VISION

• Reflexes: acquiring visual-motor control
• Righting reactions: proprioception, vestibular, and visual system interaction
• Pelvic girdle: power, visual awareness, and alertness
• Shoulder girdle: head and neck control, ocular motor activation

 

CROSS DOMINANCE: WHEN HAND DOMINANCE AND EYE DOMINANCE DON’T MATCH

• Defining and identifying cross dominance
  • Why do we have a dominant eye when half of each eye has control?
• Directionality and play issues
• Handwriting issues
• Reading challenges
• Treatment techniques and relationship to the brain
• Lab
  • discrimination training
  • vertical midline activities

 

UNILATERAL VISUAL NEGLECT

• Definition of neglect and the identification
• Issues during play, work, and school
• Handwriting clues associated with visual neglect
• Environmental adaptions
• Treatment techniques
• Lab
  • reflex training
  • midline exercises

 

EYE TEAMING TRACKING AND SACCADES

• Musculature of the eye
• What do problems look like?
• When should I treat and when should I refer?
  • reading problems
  • handwriting problems
  • gross motor problems
  • orthopedic pelvic dysfunctions
• Training and lab
  • focus/refocus exercises
  • motor system treatments
  • reading training

 

VISUAL PROCESSING

• Understanding visual processing
• Visual spatial relations
• Visual figure ground
• Effects on handwriting
• Reading challenges
• Treatment techniques
• Lab
  • space-moment and cortical learning
  • relationship to saccades and eye teaming

 

SCOTOPIC SENSITIVITY AND ITS SECONDARY EFFECTS

• Definition and theory
• Effects on visual pathways and secondary visual areas
• Treatment techniques and effect on visual spatial relations, tracking, and scanning
• Case study

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Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


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Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider #50-466 with the Florida Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. This educational offering is approved for 6 contact hours for Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistants.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants: This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - New York: Vyne Education, LLC. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education. This educational offering is awarded 7.2 contact hours.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Arkansas: This educational offering has been approved by the Arkansas State Board Of Physical Therapy for 6 contact hours for Physical Therapists.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Minnesota: This educational offering has been approved by the Minnesota Board of Physical Therapy for 3 hours of continuing education hours, category 1, (Approval #) for Physical Therapists.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Nevada: This educational offering has been submitted to the NV State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for approval of CEUs.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Ohio: This educational offering has been approved for 6 CEUs by the Ohio Physical Therapy Association for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistants (Approval #).

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Oklahoma: This educational offering has been submitted to the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision for preapproval of 6 contact hours.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

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Educators: This educational offering may qualify toward your professional development requirement. The educational offering consists of 6 clock hours. Use this information and your board rules and regulations to calculate professional development/continuing education credit.

• Occupational Therapists
• Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapists Assistants
• Early Intervention Staff
• Pediatric Nurses
• School Nurses
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