Session 5

putting The System to use

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.

 
 

Pre-Session Reading:

Thinking Goes to School by Furth and Wachs - available in electronic format.

Cases to start - with unmet needs related to school/reading etc.

  • Reading development and learning

  • The role of language in child/human development

  • Inner speech and its relationship to visualization and visual imagery

  • Dyslexia as a software problem of development: Geiger and Lettvin

  • VT can help develop the use of preprocessing and look ahead which can kickstart flow in reading.

  • What does stress do to reading?

  • Using eye movements as a way to gain insight in reading performance and the role of the visual process.

The use of the Quality of Life (QOL) checklist.

Activities

  • 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

  • KD Saccadic Test

  • Groffman Visual Tracing

  • Wold Sentence Copy

  • Gates Oral Reading

  • ReadAlyzer

Background and Theory for

  • Laterality/Directionality

  • Reading

  • Spelling