Final: Vision

COPE strategy

COPE: consistency, order items, pair like items, establish routines

grid strategy

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establishing routines

Establishing routines: cleaning, laundry, placing commonly used items in same place

ordering

ex. Keep money alphabetized

pairing

ex. socks, shoes, outfits

lighting recommendations

Increase lighting everywhere

Watch for glare

Even levels of lighting

General and task lighting

Natural spectrum bulbs

visual hierarchy

Oculomotor control, visual fields, visual acuity -> attention, alert and attending -> scanning -> pattern recognition -> visual memory -> visuocogntiion -> adaptation through vision

visual hierarchy in treatment

Start at lowest level before you can work up

Know when and how you would address the various vision deficits discussed in the readings and media. For example, scanning, saccades, fixation, smooth pursuits, etc.

Scanning: most common deficit, work on paper and pencil tasks, computer programs, scanning in functional settings, and dynavision & BITS

Saccades:

Fixation:

Smooth pursuits:

Know when you would use various vision assessment tools.

Visual acuity (near and far, optic nerve)

Contrast sensitivity

Visual field (cn II)

Reading capability

Visual scanning and attention

Oculomotor skills (cn III, IV, VI)