Salia Rehab is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID# 15622. This Distance Learning - Independent activity is offered at .1 CEUs, introductory level, Occupational Therapy Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.
Course Overview
This AOTA-approved podcast video provides rehabilitation professionals with an in-depth understanding of neuro-optometric rehabilitation and its critical role in concussion, traumatic brain injury, and other neurologically based conditions. Participants will explore the distinction between eyesight (20/20 acuity) and functional vision, and examine how dynamic visual processing influences posture, gait, balance, attention, cognition, and emotional regulation.
The course emphasizes collaborative care between neuro-optometrists and rehabilitation professionals and introduces practical clinical screening tools that can be immediately applied in therapy settings. Learners will review common post-concussion visual diagnoses including convergence insufficiency, accommodative dysfunction, and saccadic impairments. The BAT-IN screening framework (Body, Accommodation, Tracking, Near Point of Convergence) will be presented as a simple clinical tool for identifying functional vision concerns.
Evidence supporting the integration of technology-based interventions, including computer-based visual training and virtual reality platforms such as Our Visual Brain, will be discussed. Participants will leave with actionable strategies for screening, referral, interdisciplinary collaboration, and functional intervention to optimize patient outcomes.
The online class is intended for medical professionals (e.g. OT/OTA, PT/PTA, Physicians, etc.) directly related to the rehabilitation of a patient or client. To participate in this CEU and receive credit, the participant must be a licensed, treating clinician. Completion of this course will reward the participant with .1 CEUs or 1.0 contact hours, following completion of the presentation and a ≥ 80% score on the quiz. You will have 90 days to complete this course.
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About this course
- 1.0 Contact Hours / .10 CEUs
- Online Self-Study Course
- Video Podcast
Learning Outcomes
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Identify at least three ways vision integrates vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, and tactile input to support occupational performance.
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List the four components of the BAT in mnemonic and identify one functional deficit associated with impairment in each component.
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Identify two benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration between occupational therapy and neuro-optometry for individuals with traumatic brain injury.
Instructor
Patti Andrich
MA, OTR/L, COVT, CINPP, FNAP
Patti is an internationally honored occupational, vision therapist, researcher and author. She is known world-wide for her success in treating children and adults with sensory and motor processing disorders.
Patti received her master’s degree from The Ohio State University College of Education and her occupational therapy degree from the Cleveland State University Department of Health Sciences. Additionally, Patti holds certification in auditory processing using The Listening Program with Bone Conduction from Advanced Brain Technologies and through Integrated Listening Systems. Patti is certified in INPP primitive reflex integration techniques; having studied in England under the direction of Sally Goddard at the Institute of Neurological Physiological Psychology (INPP).
Patti received her certification in vision therapy through the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. Patti serves on several advisory boards relating to vision in the United States and in Asia. She is also a member of The Optometric Extension Program, and an Advisory Member to the Board of the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA), an inter-disciplinary group of professionals dedicated to providing patients who have physical or cognitive disabilities as a result of an acquired brain injury with optimal visual rehabilitation services to improve their quality of life.
Patti Andrich is the founder of the Sensory Foundations Program, a neuro-sensory motor program that helps adults and children integrate active primitive reflexes and gain postural stability. Patti specializes in improving the lives of individuals with attention, behavioral, coordination, visual, auditory, anxiety, vestibular and/or emotional regulation challenges.
Patti was named, Vision Therapist of the Year 2020, by the international organization, College of Optometrists in Vision Development.
Tanya Polec
OD, FCOVD, FOVDR, FNORA
With more than two decades of dedicated experience in vision therapy and Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation, Dr. Polec has earned a distinguished reputation as a leader in the functional visual realm. Through her mentor and personal optometrist, Dr. David Friedel (who personally trained with Skeffington and other leaders), Dr. Polec has learned and continues to study how vision is dynamic, spatial and integrates with all senses. Her “whole person, whole body” approach to vision expands what is possible from the current and dominant concepts of vision as eyesight.