Participant companion

Why Visual Performance Matters: Foundations for Occupational Therapy Practice

Keep this open on your phone or second screen while we work through the session together.

Have these ready

  • A current client or student on your caseload to think with
  • The session handout, printed or on a second screen
  • Pen and paper, or the reflection boxes on the companion page
Open the handout

Follow along

One capture box per block. Nothing leaves your device — copy anything you want to keep before you close the page.

0:00 – 0:25

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

0:25 – 0:55

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

0:55 – 1:30

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

1:30 – 2:00

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

2:00 – 2:35

Block 5 — Modify Monday morning: environmental and task modifications

2:35 – 3:00

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

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.