Visual Minds Learning

Interactive session

Why Visual Performance Matters: Foundations for OT, PT, and SLP Practice

A 3-hour interdisciplinary session for clinic and school teams

Live virtualIn personFree — whole team, no per-person charge

The same three-hour foundations session, delivered for a mixed room. Every discipline gets the shared clinical picture of visual performance — how vision breaks down, what it looks like in real tasks, and when to refer — and then each one gets its own supplement: gaze stabilization, visual dependence, and concussion staging for PT; visual load in language sampling, decoding versus comprehension, and AAC display design for SLP; assessment and VPA™ context for OT. Built to be run once for a whole clinic, live in the room or over Zoom for several sites at the same time.

Who it is for
Whole-team professional development for pediatric clinics and school districts: OTs and OTAs, PTs and PTAs, and SLPs and SLPAs in the same room, plus students in those programs.

What you walk away with

  • One shared vocabulary for visual performance across OT, PT, and SLP
  • The referral red flags every discipline should escalate the same day
  • What visual breakdown looks like in each discipline’s own tasks
  • Environmental and task modifications each discipline can make immediately
  • Where one discipline hands off to another instead of working in parallel
  • A written next-step plan for one shared student or client before the session ends

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

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Who this session is for

Whole-team professional development for pediatric clinics and school districts: OTs and OTAs, PTs and PTAs, and SLPs and SLPAs in the same room, plus students in those programs.

Occupational therapy

The full AOTA-approved activity, delivered exactly as filed, including VPA™ administration and scoring context. 3.0 contact hours / 0.3 AOTA CEUs.

Physical therapy

The shared session plus the PT supplement: gaze stabilization, visual dependence in balance and gait, and concussion return-to-activity staging with visual load as the variable.

Speech-language pathology

The shared session plus the SLP supplement: visual load in language sampling, separating decoding from comprehension from visual efficiency, and AAC display and array 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 to the hosting organization. OT and OTA attendees earn 3.0 contact hours (0.3 AOTA CEUs) through Visual Minds Learning, LLC, an AOTA Approved Provider (#0000001618) — the filed activity is delivered exactly as approved, and attendance by other disciplines changes nothing about it. PT and SLP attendees receive a certificate of participation with the content outline for submission to their own licensing board; Mississippi PT and SLP approval is in progress, and the discipline supplements are delivered separately from the filed agenda and are not counted toward AOTA contact hours.

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

The foundations session gives the whole team a shared picture and a common vocabulary. The framework course is the OT continuation: level-based sequencing, documentation, goals, and a defensible plan of care, carrying 3.0 AOTA contact hours. VPA™ administration and the ongoing CE library stay licensed to OT practitioners.

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.