Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists

DETAIL OF INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION(S)

Name:  Robin Lewis

Presentation title:  DAY 1 - Introduction

Duration of presentation: 1 Day

Time Allowed for Questions/Discussion: 1 hour (as largely workshop based)

Course Outline for Day:

9:00 – 11:30 Welcome, orientation, overview of course. Present the Skeffington 4 Circles theory of vision including explanations of the sub-processes of Antigravity, Centering, Identification, Speech-Auditory and vision as the emergent.

11:30 - 12:30 What is vision therapy? Providing the person with the opportunity to have the necessary meaningful experiences to acquire new visual abilities. Several analogies will be used to help the participants truly understand -what development is and how we can alter behavior.

1:30 - 2:30 Piaget's Model of development will be presented and discussed in detail. This is the foundation for understanding how to change the loading of all activities to meet the needs of patients in therapy. Terms to be defined include, development, high-level learning, low-level learning, as -well as a thorough discussion of the flight - fight response.

2:30 - 4:00 Models of visual attention will be discussed including a number of concepts from current research into attention and control of attention from cognitive neuroscience. Data from PET and f-MRI work will be shown which will help the participants understand the importance of helping our patients learn to channel and use their powers of visual attention.

4:00 - 5:00 Discuss the law of diminishing returns in the context of when is a patient ready to move on to the next activity as Well as when is the patient ready to be finished with their vision therapy program. Discuss the Forrest and Harmon concept of the body as three triangles with transducers between each of the different levels.

Presentation title:  DAY 2 – Principles and the beginning of Procedures

Duration of presentation: 1 Day
Time Allowed for Questions/Discussion: 1 hour (as largely workshop based)

Course Outline for Day:

9:00 - 10:00 Present and discuss the Grossman Principles of Effort.

10:00 - 11:30 Present and discuss the Kraskin Principles of Vision Therapy.

11:30 - 12:30 Go over in detail that first vision therapy session including all the forms relative to orienting the patient to what it will take to be successful in their vision therapy program. This will include the goals setting sheets, the orientation sheets (NOTE: both adult and child forms win be discussed.) as well as the "what's expected of you" information sheet.

1:30 - 2:00 The COVD lifestyle checklist used before and after vision therapy will be presented and gone over in detail. This is used to demonstrate significant changes that affect the patient’s life directly.  

2:00 - 3:00 The philosophy of the development of the OEP Clinical Curriculum VT Grids. Here the discussion will deal with the differences between the Kraskin approach, with there being a single curriculum of vision therapy for members of the human race as opposed to a specific symptoms 4 decreased findings --) specific treatment for the bad findings 4 to fixed symptoms approach.

3:00 - 5:00 From this point on specific activities are presented from the VT/Visual Dysfunctions grid. Only the titles of the activities are presented here at approximately the times that they are encountered. Eye Control, Coin Circles & Square Balance Board.

Presentation title:  DAY 3 – Procedures Continued

Duration of presentation: 1 Day
Time Allowed for Questions/Discussion: 1 hour (as largely workshop based)

Course Outline for Day:

9:00 - 11:00 C-P Saccades, Flashlight pointing 1 & 2 lights, Hart Chart Near-Far Rock

11:00 - 12:30 Monocular Accommodative Rock, Binocular Accommodative Rock, Discussion of dark focus and Mandelbaum effect.

1:30 - 5:00 Walking rail, with plus/minus, with yoked prisms, Wallach rings and High Level Wallach Rings, Forrest’s use of the Plateau spiral, Laserspec Biofeedback, VisaSonic Biofeedback.

Presentation title:  DAY 4 – Procedures Continued

Duration of presentation: 1 Day
Time Allowed for Questions/Discussion: 1 hour (as largely workshop based)

Course Outline for Day:

9:00 – 12:30 Motor Equivalents, Squinchel, Rotator circles, Dissociated rotator

1: 30 – 5:00 Physiological diplopia with T-bone, Brock String, Bug on string, Cross cylinder rock

Presentation title:  DAY 5 – Procedures & Progress Evaluation (Final Day)

Duration of presentation: 1 Day
Time Allowed for Questions/Discussion: 1 hour (as largely workshop based)

Course Outline for Day:

9:00 – 12:30 Rotator T’s with ping-pong balls, estimating distances, thumb overlap, see-3-coins, overlapping pictures solid and clear.

1:30 – 3:30 Vectograms projected and direct, Brock stereo motivator, Keystone Fusion games, Cheiroscopic tracing, Van Orden Stars, Harry’s Blocks

3:30 – 4:30 What to look for in doing progress evaluations at each 8-week point in the treatment program as well as the 1, 3 and 6-month post VT checkup. (Note: we finish at 4:30 PM allowing those travelling a great distance or who have to catch a plane to get home at a reasonable hour.)

ACBO Fellows, Members and accredited therapists    $1,350 AUD (GST incl for Australian Registrants only)
Non-ACBO Members                                             $1,450 AUD (GST incl for Australian Registrants only)