OPT 753 - Seminar Visual Prob Relate to Learn Dis

2 credit(s)
This course serves as both an optometry student elective course and a MEd/VFL core requirement couse. The course focuses on the role of vision in relation to educational, psychological, speech/language and reading performance. A multidisciplinary perspective is emphasized in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities. The interrelationships between psycho-educational test results and visual functions such as eye movements, refractive status, accommodative- convergence function and visual information processing are discussed in light of current research and case analysis.