Vision Therapy/Learning Related Visual Problems
Are you looking for a thought-provoking 35-hour optometry continuing education course that you can bring back into your office and use every day? Are you seeking an optometry CE course or optometry conference that intertwines the fundamentals of vision therapy (VT) with the ability to diagnose and treat patients with vision-related learning disabilities? Vision Therapy/Learning Related Visual Problems has been specially designed to take your optometry practice to the next level of patient care. Dr Robert Hohendorf is simply a fantastic instructor. Come to this OEP optometry continuing education class for a captivating 5-day journey where you will learn skills necessary to quickly and accurately identify needs of your patients struggling with learning disabilities such as Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and other developmental disabilities. In this optometry CE course, you will be able to re-address the skills acquired in the VT-II curriculum (prerequisite) to reap the greatest benefit for your patient. Here you will learn the innovative techniques and tests to address the visually integrative challenges patients and optometrists face. Here is a sampling of some of the tests you can look forward to implementing: DEM Saccadic Test, Groffman Visual Tracing Test, Visagraph Eye Movement Analysis, Wold Sentence Copy Test, Gates Oral Reading Survey and the Jordan Left Right Test. These tests focus in on dilemmas associated with vision development and pinpoints patient’s trouble areas in sequencing, timing, and tracking. Through the course, parallels are drawn between laterality, directionality and ocular motor dysfunctions. Topics such as Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are addressed in the optometry continuing education course– clarifying the definitions associated with these topics and the implications these disorders pose. You will be immersed in the complete visual process of one who suffers from these disorders as we delve into mechanisms of attention, visual imagery, visualization, composition, behavior, and the role vision plays. This course will provide you with tools to address juvenile delinquency and behavior issues, teaching you how to produce a positive patient environment in which progress happens. A manual, homework sheets, procedure grids and materials explaining how best to handle learning related visual problems are provided with the course. This optometry continuing education meeting also brings together like-minded optometric practitioners and therapists whose relationships and insights are of great value. So expand your practice or refine your optometric learning at this continuing education conference, held November 3-7 in Pomona, CA at Western University of the Health Sciences - College of Optometry from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily, except on the last day, which ends at 3:00 PM. For more information on this course or any other optometry continuing education opportunity visit www.optometryce.com.
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