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Functional Vision in Rehabilitation: two free, live courses for occupational therapists, taught by Dr. Christina Murray, OD, FOVDR.

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Functional Vision in Rehabilitation is a two-part course for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants. Each part is two hours, live and in person, and free to attend. Take one or both.

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The Courses

Functional Vision in Rehabilitation

Part 1

Understanding Visual Dysfunction Across the Lifespan

Two hours · live, in person · introductory

How functional vision supports reading, balance, mobility and daily activities, and what it looks like when it is not working: in children with developmental vision concerns, after a concussion or brain injury, after a stroke, and with vestibular symptoms.

By the end you will be able to:

  • Tell apart visual acuity, visual acquisition, visual perception and visual attention in a real case.
  • Describe fixation, pursuits, saccades, focusing, convergence, binocular vision and visual fields, and what each does in daily life.
  • Explain how vision works with the vestibular and body-position senses for posture, balance and movement.
  • Recognize the functional signs of developmental, binocular, focusing, eye-movement and acquired neurologic vision problems.
  • Choose the right eye-care or medical referral, and how urgent it is, for a child or an adult.
  • Separate what the evidence supports from claims that go beyond it.

Part 2

Functional Vision Screening and Rehabilitation Readiness

Two hours · live, in person, with supervised partner practice

Hands-on practice of an introductory functional vision screening: what to observe, how to record it, when to stop, and how to turn what you saw into a useful referral and a therapy plan that supports vision rehabilitation. Part 1, or similar background, is recommended first.

By the end you will be able to:

  • Carry out and document introductory observations of fixation, pursuits, saccades and near convergence, with the safety checks.
  • Pick out the head position, posture, balance, visual attention and sensory tolerance findings that matter in a case.
  • Tell apart what belongs in your own functional management from what needs an eye-care, vestibular or medical evaluation.
  • Choose therapy priorities that help a patient take part in vision rehabilitation, before or alongside eye care.
  • Write a referral that states symptoms, test conditions, findings, functional impact and urgency.
  • Know when to stop and escalate if visual or neurologic red flags appear.

These are introductory courses. They do not certify advanced vision, vestibular or neuro-optometric competence, and screening stays within your own training and scope of practice.

Who It’s For

Written for Occupational Therapists

No earlier training in vision is needed for Part 1. The courses are aimed at therapists whose patients’ goals keep running into a visual problem.

Pediatric Therapists

Children whose handwriting, copying, reading stamina or visual-motor goals have stalled, where a vision problem may be part of the picture.

Concussion, Stroke and Neuro Rehab

Adults and teens with dizziness, visual motion sensitivity, reading fatigue or field loss after a concussion, brain injury or stroke.

Vestibular and Balance Work

Patients whose balance and movement depend heavily on vision, and whose symptoms change with visual demand.

Registration

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The courses are free. Leave your name, email and phone and tick the course you want. We will contact you when the dates and location are set, and you can decide then whether they work for you.

CE credit: our application to offer continuing education credit to Florida occupational therapists is under review. We will post the credit details here once a decision is made. Until then, no CE credit is offered or implied.

Questions? Email hello@visionlearncenter.com or call (561) 462-1245. Want a course brought to your own clinic, school or team? Use our request form and choose CE course for our team.

Between Courses

Working Together on Shared Patients

Courses are only one way we work with therapists. If a child on your caseload has stalled and you suspect a visual component, you don’t need to wait for the next session — send them for a developmental vision evaluation and we’ll report back to you with what we find.

Refer a Patient

How referrals work, what we send back to you, and how we co-manage care with the professionals who referred the child.

Our Referral Network

The occupational and physical therapists across Broward and Palm Beach counties that we know and work alongside.

Symptom Checklist

A short checklist you can share with a family when you suspect a functional vision problem is in the way.

What a Developmental Evaluation Covers

The testing behind the report you receive — eye teaming, focusing, tracking, and visual processing.

Visual-Motor & Coordination Problems

Where handwriting, catching a ball and copying from the board meet the visual system.

Primitive Reflexes

Retained reflexes affect posture, coordination and visual skills alike — familiar ground for OTs.
Keep Reading

Background Reading for Therapists

Vision Therapy vs Occupational Therapy: What’s the Difference?

Where the two therapies overlap, where they differ, and how to tell which one a child needs first.

How Vision Therapy Intertwines With Other Therapies

The interconnected journey — OT, PT, speech and vision therapy working toward the same goals for one child.

What School Vision Screenings Miss

Why a child can pass the screening at school and still have a functional vision problem affecting reading.

Perceptual Skills and Child Development

What visual perceptual processing actually covers, and how it shows up in a child’s classroom performance.

The Connection Between Primitive Reflexes and Vision

How retained reflexes hold back motor development and visual skills at the same time.

How Vision Shapes Developmental Milestones

The developmental sequence from the visual side — what the eyes contribute at each stage.

Have a Patient Who Can’t Wait for the Next Course?

Send them for a developmental vision evaluation. We’ll test what the screening can’t reach, tell you what we found, and keep you in the loop for as long as the child is with us.

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