Session 5

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.

 
 

An exploration of visual process relating to reading development, including the role of language in child/human development.

 In a person with a visual process stress at near, what might we see in their reading behavior?

 Discussion of the work on reading by Geiger and Lettvin.

 Special testing in ten effective tests/probes will be explored, and the benefit of their use when considering the visual skill of the patient.

Activities

Following the Protocol, 25+ Vision Therapy activities discussed and practiced, with patient instructions within the course handouts including:

  • Using the chalkboard (multiple activities)

  • Circle line jumping to Slap Tap

  • Column Jumping

  • Line Tracing/Mazes

  • AALT - Track Letters from VisionBuilder

  • Building Binocularity and Appreciating stereo (multiple activities)

  • Visualization/Visual Imagery leading to Elliott Forrest’s “Spelling Method”

Probes to gain insights: examples below

  • DEM/KD Saccadic Test

  • Groffman Visual Tracing

  • Wold Sentence Copy

  • Gates Oral Reading

  • ReadAlyzer

Background and Theory for

  • Laterality/Directionality

  • Reading

  • Spelling