Visual Minds Learning

Interactive session

Why Visual Performance Matters: Foundations for Occupational Therapy Practice

A 3-hour interactive session for occupational therapy practitioners

Live virtualIn personOn demandFree — for the hosting organization and for attendees

A three-hour, highly visual session in six teaching blocks, each with a poll, case, or reflection. Every block opens with the anchor concept for practitioners who have seen this material before, then spends most of its time on expansion content. Built for practitioners who see visual concerns on their caseload and want language, referral rules, and modifications they can use the next morning.

Who it is for
OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs, and SLPs working in schools, clinics, home health, and adult rehab, plus students in those programs.

What you walk away with

  • Language for describing visual performance that stays inside OT scope
  • The referral red flags that should never wait for the next screening cycle
  • Classroom and clinic signatures of "what" versus "where" processing
  • Environmental modifications matched to a functional visual profile
  • How comorbid autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia change the picture
  • A written next-step plan for one real client before you leave the session

Three hours, six blocks

  1. 0:00 – 0:25

    Block 1 — Vision as a performance system: why a passed screening tells you little

  2. 0:25 – 0:55

    Block 2 — What vision looks like in occupation: classroom, clinic, and home signatures

  3. 0:55 – 1:30

    Block 3 — Recognize and refer: red flags by urgency and the scope line

  4. 1:30 – 2:00

    Block 4 — When it is not just vision: autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia

  5. 2:00 – 2:35

    Block 5 — Modify Monday morning: environmental and task modifications

  6. 2:35 – 3:00

    Block 6 — Where this goes next: from observation to structure and measurement

Every block opens with a poll and closes with a case or reflection prompt.

Save your spot

Register once and we will send the join link, the handout, and the recording afterward.

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Participant companion

Open this on your phone during the live session for polls, reflection prompts, and materials.

Open companion

Watch the replay

The recording posts here after the live session.

Who this session is for

OTs, OTAs, PTs, PTAs, and SLPs working in schools, clinics, home health, and adult rehab, plus students in those programs.

Occupational therapy

The full AOTA-approved activity, including VPA™ administration and scoring context.

Physical therapy

Same session, plus a PT supplement on gaze stabilization, visual dependence in balance and gait, and concussion return-to-activity staging.

Speech-language pathology

Same session, plus an SLP supplement on visual load in language sampling, separating decoding from comprehension from visual efficiency, and AAC display design.

Credit by discipline

Everyone attends the same 3.0 hours. What you can claim afterward depends on your license.

Occupational therapy

Approved

OT · OTR/L · OTA · COTA

Credit
3.0 contact hours. AOTA contact hours and CEUs, issued by Visual Minds Learning, LLC, an AOTA Approved Provider (#0000001618).
You receive
Certificate of Completion (AOTA CEUs)
Submitted to
AOTA Approved Provider Program (#0000001618)
VPA™ access
Full VPA™ access: administer, score, and report the Fast Screen, Mini VPA™, and Full VPA™.

Physical therapy

Approval in progress

PT · DPT · PTA

Credit
Certificate of participation for the hours of instruction attended, for self-submission to your licensing board. Mississippi board approval is in progress.
You receive
Certificate of Participation
Submitted to
Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy
VPA™ access
No VPA™ administration. You leave with observation language, referral triggers, and environment and task modifications for PT sessions.

Speech-language pathology

Approval in progress

SLP · CCC-SLP · SLPA

Credit
Certificate of participation for the hours of instruction attended, for self-submission to your licensing board. Mississippi board approval is in progress.
You receive
Certificate of Participation
Submitted to
Mississippi State Department of Health — Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology licensure
VPA™ access
No VPA™ administration. You leave with observation language, referral triggers, and environment and task modifications for speech and literacy sessions.

All three disciplines attend the same session. The AOTA-approved activity — its learning outcomes, agenda, timing, and contact hours — is delivered exactly as filed. Discipline-specific material is provided as a separate supplement in the handout and in optional Q and A that is not counted toward contact hours.

Visual performance for speech-language pathology

Supplement delivered with the handout — outside the AOTA-approved agenda.

Open supplement

Visual performance for physical therapy

Supplement delivered with the handout — outside the AOTA-approved agenda.

Open supplement
Attendance certificate

Offered at no cost. The matching self-paced course carries 3.0 contact hours (0.3 AOTA CEUs) through Visual Minds Learning, LLC, an AOTA Approved Provider (#0000001618); OT and OTA attendees claim that certificate free after the post-course exam and evaluation. PT and SLP attendees receive a certificate of participation for the hours of instruction for self-submission to their licensing board while Mississippi board approval is in progress.

AOTA contact hours and CEUs are available to OT and OTA practitioners. PT and SLP attendees receive a certificate of participation for self-submission; Mississippi PT and SLP board approval is in progress. Administration and scoring of the Mini VPA™ and Full VPA™ are licensed to OT practitioners; the free Fast Screen is open to teachers, TVIs, and school teams for triage and produces no levels or profile.

Your next step

Vision in OT Practice

This session gives you the observation, referral, and modification skills. The next course gives you the structured, level-based framework that turns those observations into sequencing, documentation, goals, and a defensible plan of care — and it carries 3.0 AOTA contact hours.

See the framework course

The full path: this session → the framework course → the VPA™ assessment course. Each step assumes the one before it, so the language and the levels stay the same the whole way through.