Full Description
The new fourth edition of Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits: A Guide for Occupational Therapists provides practitioners not only with a comprehensive understanding of vision and how vision problems can impact on the practice of occupational therapy, but also invaluable guidance on how to effectively manage clients with these issues.
The book presents a three-part model of vision to inform readers' understanding of the issues, and management across a range of eye conditions:
Visual integrity: Includes visual acuity (clarity), the optics of the eye, and eye health.
Visual efficiency skills: Includes focusing, eye teaming, and eye movements.
Visual information processing skills: Includes the ability to analyze, interpret, and respond to visual information.
Covering key topics such as vision problems related to acquired brain injury and learning disorders among children with special educational needs, the new edition has been thoroughly updated to the latest findings in vision research, while there are also new chapters on using an interprofessional collaborative approach to client care, and how remediation can be integrated into occupational therapy principles to create occupation-based remedial vision rehabilitation.
A unique collaboration between the professions of occupational therapy and optometry together, and including a glossary of key terms and a sample vision screening report form, this is a key text for health care professionals to provide the ultimate in patient care.
Contents
1 Background Information 2 Review of Basic Anatomy, Physiology and Development of the Visual System 3 Optometric Model of Vision, Part One: Acuity, Refractive and Eye Health Disorders 4 Optometric Model of Vision, Part Two: Visual Efficiency Skills 5 Optometric Model of Vision, Part Three: Visual Information Processing Skills 6 Screening for Visual Acuity, Visual Efficiency and Visual Information Processing Problems 7 Optometric Management of Refractive, Visual Efficiency and Visual Information Processing Disorders 8 Managing Visual Problems in the Pediatric Population 9 Visual Problems Associated With Acquired Brain Injury 10 Visual Rehabilitation for Patients With Brain Injury 11 Oculo-Visual Disorders Associated with Developmental and Sensory Disabilities 12 Management of Vision Problems for Children with Special Needs 13 Using an Interprofessional Collaborative Approach for the Successful Care of the Person 14 OT Management of Eye Movement and Vision Information Processing Disorders: Occupation-based Remedial Vision Rehabilitation 15 The Inter-Relationship Model
