Low Vision: Occupational Therapy Evaluation and Intervention with Older Adults
Edited by Mary Warren, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, FAOTA
Foreword by Dan Roberts, Founding Director, Macular Degeneration Support
Authors: Lila Bartmann, MA, OTR; Elizabeth Barstow, MS, OTR/L, SCLV; Denny Bettenhausen, BS, COTA, SCLV; Adrienne Broadfoot, MS, OTR/L, SCLV; Yolanda Cate, MS, OTR/L, CDE; Laura E. Dreer, PhD; Marshall Flax, MS, CLVT, COMS; Jennifer Kaldenberg, MSA, OTR, SCLV, CLVT; Teddy Kern, MS, OTR; Lylas G. Mogk, MD; Rodney Nowakowski, OD, PhD; Anne T. Riddering, OTR, CLVT, COMS; Ronald A. Schuchard, PhD; Shelley Sikes-Baker, OTR/L; Fawnda Steelman, OTR/L; and Diane Storm-Weiss, MS, CVRT
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Earn 2 AOTA CEUs (20 NBCOT PDUs/20 contact hours)
Content Level: Intermediate
Member Price: $370
Non-Member Price: $470
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Course Description
When the first edition of this Self-Paced Clinical Course (SPCC) was published in 2000, occupational therapy practitioners had been providing low vision rehabilitation services to older adults within the health care system for just a decade, without formal education or a reliable reimbursement and referral system. Since that time, a national Medicare policy has been put in place that extends uniform coverage to low vision rehabilitation to Medicare beneficiaries across the United States. Low vision rehabilitation is also now a concentration of undergraduate and graduate education programs, and numerous continuing education sessions.
Occupational therapy has the potential of becoming the largest service provider in low vision rehabilitation. The number of occupational therapy practitioners who provide low vision services is growing, and with this growth comes the responsibility for establishing and maintaining competence in the field. Low Vision SPCC, Revised Edition is designed to assist occupational therapy practitioners with acquiring the knowledge needed for
specialty certification in low vision rehabilitation (SCLV credential) and includes revisions, updates, new information on evaluation, and lessons related to psychosocial issues and low vision.
Learning Objectives
After completing this SPCC (instructions and exam are in a separate packet), readers will be able to
- Delineate the role of occupational therapy in providing low vision rehabilitation to adults with vision loss;
- Identify the conditions that cause low vision in older adults and the corresponding medical management of these conditions;
- Identify the changes in visual function that occur with low vision and how these changes affect occupational performance;
- Select appropriate assessments to identify and measure limitations in occupational performance resulting from vision loss;
- Select appropriate interventions to address limitations in mobility, reading, writing, and basic and instrumental activities of daily living, including diabetes self-management; and
- Recognize behaviors that indicate poor psychosocial adjustment to vision loss and know strategies to use to facilitate adjustment and referral to appropriate mental health providers.
Lessons—
1. An Overview of Low Vision Rehabilitation and the Role of Occupational Therapy
2. Eye Conditions That Cause Low Vision in Adults
3. Evaluation of Visual Client Factors Influencing Occupational Performance
4. Basic Optics and Optical Devices
5. Evaluation and Intervention for Deficits in Reading and Writing
6. Evaluation and Intervention for Deficits in Home and Community Mobility
7. Evaluation and Intervention for Basic and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
8. Evaluation and Intervention for Diabetes Self-Care Management
9. Assistive Technology Interventions to Improve Occupational Performance
10. Evaluation and Intervention for Psychosocial Issues
Subject and citation indices are included to facilitate use of this SPCC as a reference after completing the exam.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistant
AOTA Classification for Continuing Education
Category 1: Domain of Occupational Therapy, Areas of Occupation, Client Factors
Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process, Intervention
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Exam
You are encouraged to complete the SPCC and return the exam within one year of purchase, although completed examinations will be accepted at any time until such time as the course is discontinued. Certificates of completion are awarded after you have successfully completed the written examination with an 80% passing score.
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