Instructor & Provider Disclosures

Instructor

Jeff Foster, MS, OTR/L, EdD(ABD)

Founder of Visual Minds Learning, LLC; licensed occupational therapist and vision impairment specialist serving school-age students in a public school district, with graduate coursework in low vision rehabilitation and developer of the Five-Level Visual Performance Framework and the Visual Performance Assessment (VPA™).

Full biography and qualifications: about the instructor.

Financial disclosure

The instructor is the owner of Visual Minds Learning, LLC and receives income from the sale of this PD activity and from VPA™ assessment products and resources referenced in the course. The instructor is employed as an occupational therapist by a public school district; that employment is unrelated to and unaffected by this activity.

Non-financial disclosure

The instructor developed the Five-Level Visual Performance Framework and the VPA™ taught in this course. No commercial curriculum, product, or publisher outside Visual Minds Learning, LLC is endorsed, and no external sponsor provided content, funding, or editorial input.

Commercial support

No professional development activity offered by Visual Minds Learning, LLC receives commercial support, grant funding, in-kind contribution, or sponsorship. No commercial entity has provided content, reviewed content, or exercised editorial control. No product outside of Visual Minds Learning, LLC is endorsed, and any commercially available assessment or curriculum named in an activity is named for instructional comparison only.

Activity-specific disclosures

• Vision in OT Practice — 3.0 contact hours. Instructor: Jeff Foster, MS, OTR/L. Financial: receives income from the sale of this activity and from Visual Minds Learning assessment products referenced within it. Non-financial: developed the Five-Level Visual Performance Framework and the VPA™ taught in this activity. No commercial support.
• The VPA™: Assessment & Clinical Reasoning — 4.0 contact hours. Instructor: Jeff Foster, MS, OTR/L. Financial: receives income from the sale of this activity and from Visual Minds Learning assessment products referenced within it. Non-financial: developed the Five-Level Visual Performance Framework and the VPA™ taught in this activity. No commercial support.

Content review

Because the instructor holds a financial interest in the products referenced, activity content is reviewed for balance and evidence support by an occupational therapy peer reviewer who has no financial interest in Visual Minds Learning, LLC. Every clinical-effect claim in an activity is tied to a cited reference with a stated level of evidence; content is reviewed at least annually.

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