Session 3

optics Should Anyone Really care?

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.

Pre-Session Activities:

Visual Therapy

Preparedness and opportunity – knowledge and observation, equipment, adaptability and approach, understanding, timing, anticipation, enthusiasm, confidence, hierarchy and curriculum.

  • The principles of successful VT and perceptual learning which include:

    • Cortical plasticity - how to turn it on

    • Just noticeable differences (JND’s) and how to make changes that matter

  • The neural basis of development, space mapping, and movement; directing action in space.

  • Seeing the development from egocentric to allocentric and the value of simulating movements before executing them.

  • The development of posture and movement are intertwined.

  • The visual process is developed through movement.

Primary and Secondary Variabilities of Movement will be demonstrated and explored by the group.

  • What are their roles in child/human development over the life of the person?

  • Under what circumstances should they express themselves (be figural) and under what circumstances should they simply be ground.

  • How to maximize seeing if any of these are interfering with or holding back development.

  • What kinds of activities can be done to help a person use these Primary and Secondary Variabilities of Movement to successfully master more that life presents with ease, efficiency and grace of movement.