Impact of Visual Deficits on Motor and Cognitive Development In Infants and Toddlers
Subah Gupta MHS, OTR/L, SCLV, CBIS
Includes all course content in digital format
Prerequisites Required
Description
Visual deficits often get masked as cognitive deficits where lack of engagement is blamed on lack of motivation and attention. It is a known fact that sub-optimal visuo-sensory abilities affect performance of non-verbal tasks. This course will teach healthcare professionals how to improve infant and toddler engagement in the appropriate developmental activity using practical treatment techniques that lead with vision. The attendee will receive tools to identify visual deficits and improve their ability in analyzing and planning interventions towards treatment outcomes. Addressing vision is the missing piece of the puzzle which when addressed with sensory, motor and cognitive deficits allows healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care.
Highlights
- Clinical observations, standardized tests and practical interventions for functional deficits, underlying conditions, and co-morbidities you can use the next day through case examples and videos
- Identify treatment resources and strategies to improve visual perceptual and visuo-motor skills in infants and toddlers
Learning Objectives
- Examine the development of vision's role in behavior as well as its relationship with posture, movement, balance, spatial orientation, and cognition using conceptual frameworks.
- Apply intervention strategies for infants and toddlers to improve visual function for engagement and play.
Course Content
| Impact of Visual Deficits on Motor and Cognitive Development In Infants and Toddlers | SCORM Package | ||
| Next Steps | Module |
- Recognizing Visual Deficits
- Functional anatomy and normal visual development
- Visual screen and standardized tests
- Conceptual frameworks
- Presence of primitive reflexes
- Treatment Interventions
- Participation and engagement
- Play
- Environmental treatment ideas
- General treatment principles
Subah Gupta MHS, OTR/L, SCLV, CBIS received her bachelor's in occupational therapy from India, her master's in health sciences from the University of Indianapolis, and her Low Vision Rehabilitation Graduate Certificate Degree from the University of Alabama. She is a sensory integration and brain injury certified therapist who recently also received AOTA's Specialty Certification in Low Vision (SCLV). She has been a practicing clinician for 25 years. In the last 13 years, she has developed a special interest in working with pediatric as well as adult populations with visual disorders. Ms. Gupta teaches as a guest lecturer at Thomas Jefferson University and Widener University in Pennsylvania. She has presented on varied topics in vision at the 2014, 2016 and 2017 IOTA State Conferences and was on the committee which organized the specialty low vision conference for IOTA in April 2017. During the pandemic, she developed a keen interest in telehealth delivery of low vision services. She is the owner of Sum Therapy, a private practice which delivers pediatric telehealth as well as in person occupational therapy services. She is an active member of AOTA.
DISCLOSURES
FINANCIAL: Subah Gupta is compensated by Summit as an Instructor. She is the owner of Sum Therapy, an OT private practice and also works in a school system.
NONFINANCIAL: Subah Gupta is an active member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
Summit receives financial support for this course from Physitrack
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