Product Description
Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits: A Guide For Occupational Therapists, Second Edition is a unique and comprehensive collaboration from optometrists, occupational therapists, and low vision rehabilitation specialists designed to increase the understanding of vision. This thoroughly updated edition is an innovative resource, enabling occupational therapists to appreciate the various effects vision problems can have on the practice of occupational therapy, as well as to manage patients with vision disorders more effectively.
This well-organized text is the only text for occupational therapists that covers all aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of vision deficits. Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits: A Guide For Occupational Therapists, Second Edition discusses the details of vision therapy for eye movement and visual perceptual deficits. OT management of vision problems specific to autism, acquired brain injury patients, learning disabled children, developmentally delayed, multiply impaired children, and low vision patients are just a few of the topics covered inside this comprehensive resource.
Also included in this essential learning tool are three new chapters that will allow occupational therapists to expand their knowledge base in the area low vision rehabilitation, making this text a perfect addition to every occupational therapist’s bookshelf.
This revised edition includes the following new chapters:
- Low Vision: Overview and Review of Low Vision Evaluation and Treatment
- Visual Impairment and Activities of Daily Living
- Low Vision and Occupational Therapy: Developing an Occupational Therapy Specialty in Low Vision
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Contents
Chapter One: Background Information
Chapter Two: Review of Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Development of the Visual System
Chapter Three: Optometric Model of Vision, Part One: Acuity, Refractive, and Eye Health Disorders
Chapter Four: Optometric Model of Vision, Part Two: Visual Efficiency Skills
Chapter Five: Optometric Model of Vision, Part Three: Visual Information Processing Skills
Chapter Six: Screening for Visual Acuity, Visual Efficiency, and Visual Information Processing Problems
Chapter Seven: Management of Refractive, Visual Efficiency, and Visual Information Processing Disorders
Chapter Eight: Visual Problems Associated with Learning Disorders
Chapter Nine: Visual Problems Associated with Brain Injury
Chapter Ten: Visual Rehabilitation for Patients with Brain Injury
Chapter Eleven: Visual Problems Associated with Developmental and Sensory Disabilities
Chapter Twelve: Management of Vision Problems for the Developmentally Disabled
Chapter Thirteen: Visual Fields After Brain Injury: Management Issues for the Occupational Therapist
Chapter Fourteen: Low Vision: Overview and Review of Low Vision Evaluation and Treatment
Chapter Fifteen: Activities of Daily Living and Individuals with Low Vision
Chapter Sixteen: Low Vision and Occupational Therapy: Developing an Occupational Therapy Specialty in Low Vision
Chapter Seventeen: The Inter-Relationship Model
Chapter Eighteen: Theory and Guidelines for Visual Task Analysis and Synthesis
Glossary of Key Terms
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Vision Screening Report Form
Appendix C: Advance Degree Programs
Appendix D: Organizations
Appendix E: Low Vision Supplies and Equipment
Index
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Reviews
"This book is well-written. The explanations are clear, and the text is amply illustrated."
— Rochelle Caviness, Large Print Reviews
"My interest in low vision is recent and this book gives a great overview.”
— Robert William Henderson, Divine, Inc.
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About the Author
Mitchell Scheiman, OD, FAAO, FCOVD
Dr. Mitchell Scheiman is a nationally known optometric educator, lecturer, author, and private practitioner. He is the author of Understanding and Managing Visual Deficits: A Guide for Occupational Therapists, published by SLACK Incorporated. Dr. Scheiman has a long and close relationship with occupational therapists. He works closely with occupational therapists in his practice comanaging patients, and more than 5,000 occupational therapists have attended his workshops on Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits. He has specialized in vision rehabilitation of children and adults for the past 30 years. Dr. Scheiman is currently a Professor of Optometry at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He is a Diplomate in Binocular Vision and Perception and a Fellow in the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.
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