The course
Advancing Learning Through Vision
This course, titled "Advancing Learning Through Vision," is a comprehensive 18-day educational program designed to help professionals make a positive impact on their patients' lives by improving their vision and overall well-being. The course is offered both in-person and via hybrid Zoom sessions, with each part lasting three days. It draws from over 100 years of combined experience in vision therapy, private practice management, and post-graduate teaching.
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The course begins with a case-based approach, focusing on patient encounters, tools used in vision therapy, the behavioral optometric insights gained from interactions, and the importance of the visual process in understanding human behavior.
This part introduces a clinically proven protocol for vision therapy, offering a sequence of developmentally challenging experiences for patients to develop their vision and movement. Activities and the role of the metronome are explained.
In this gem Rob discusses the space solid and stereopsis and how our work helps us gain insight into how the person is functioning in their space world and the myriad of ways we can help them be more effective and more efficient.
Rob Lewis on WHY we are doing these courses. 8/27/2021
This section explores the analytical aspects of vision therapy, emphasizing prism equilibrium findings, when to prescribe for conditions beyond measurements, and the relationship between refractive conditions and stress
This section addresses cases related to reading and learning, emphasizing the role of language in child development, inner speech, dyslexia, and the impact of stress on reading. Various activities and probes are introduced and cases discussed.
The use of the metronome is fairly ubiquitous in VT. Here Rob discusses his view of the value of using the metronome as part of behavioral vision care and VT in particular.
Telling stories has become a core vehicle for communicating our thoughts, ideas, clinical insights and that which we want people to know without "lecturing" people.
Visual therapy principles, including cortical plasticity, just noticeable differences, and the role of movement in visual development, are discussed. The development of posture and movement is highlighted, and Primary and Secondary Variabilities of Movement are explored.
The course concludes with the analysis of three specific cases, along with additional activities and theoretical concepts such as the binocular continuum, strabismus, and amblyopia.
Here Rob Lewis speaks on symmetry in binocularity and why some people choose asymmetric ways of using their binocular system and how we can assist them in getting back to symmetry, should they choose to do so.
Here Rob discusses both the joys and the challenges of running a practice which provides VT as part of the services for its patients and the community.