The Course

Advancing Learning Through Vision

Our mission is to make the benefits of a comprehensive understanding of the visual process broadly available to change lives.

Our North Star, our guiding principle, is that no one, especially no child, should be denied the benefit of full scope optometric care practiced from the behavioral perspective. 

The aim of the course is to change lives of both patients and practitioners; the most common review of the course is that ‘It changed my life.’  The course has three instructors with a wealth of experience in Behavioral Optometry, presenting and Vision Therapy providing an exciting experience for Optometrists and Vision Therapists to enhance their skill and approach.  

The OPSIS course should be considered as one complete course spread over six sections, covering the art and practice of optometry including human development, examination techniques, case analysis, case based optometric philosophy and prescribing.  Prescribing lenses is designed to help each patient reach their visual potential, including in depth coverage of refractive conditions, i.e. myopia, hyperopia,  & astigmia.  

The experience and training in using optometric visual therapy is throughout the course, to enable delegates to help each patient develop their utmost in visual skill, including, but not limited to, developmental learning, strabismus, amblyopia, reading and learning problems, and visual inefficiencies.  The course emphasis is learning and sharing for both in person and online delegates, and, with improving technology, improves the ability for online delegates to feel included in all the discussions and questions. Each section will be recorded and available to all delegates for a month after it has taken place.  

Here is an overview of the topics covered in each section as confidence and practice builds with each visit. The interactive nature of the learning means that sometimes topics may be moved to a different section.

More on our philosophy

Click on the Blue Push-Buttons below for details on each of the sessions.

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

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.

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.

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