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SUMMARY:Communication: Reading Eye Movements and Language to Understand Patient Strategies Dr. Geoff Heddle\, COEP
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n  \nDescription: \nEffective communication provides valuable insight into how patients process information\, solve problems\, and approach visual tasks. This lecture explores how eye movements\, language patterns\, and other communication behaviors can provide clues to the strategies a patient is using. \nParticipants will learn to recognize meaningful patterns in visual behavior and verbal responses and consider how these observations may reflect the patient’s underlying processing and problem-solving strategies. The lecture will provide practical approaches for using these communication cues to improve clinical observation\, questioning\, and patient interaction. \nBy integrating observations of where and how a patient looks with the language they use to describe their experiences\, clinicians can gain a deeper understanding of the patient’s individual strategies and better tailor their clinical approach. \nBio: \nGeoffrey A. Heddle\, OD was born and raised in Uxbridge\, ON\, Canada. He completed his Bachelor of Science (BSc.) at the U. of Waterloo\, and obtained a Bachelor of Science\, and Doctorate of Optometry from Indiana University. \nGeoff has practiced in various parts of the country\, and currently resides in SW Michigan with his wife and their children. \nDr. Heddle has spent time as an adjunct faculty member of Indiana University’s school of Optometry. He has also been involved in InfantSee\, and HeadStart. \nDr. Heddle’s history of sports participation and passion for Behavioural Optometry provides him a unique insight to the field of Sports Vision. He has lectured extensively\, around the world\, on the topic. \nHe is a former OEPF Clinical Curriculum faculty member and clinical associate of OEPF\, and a member of COVD\, NORA and CSO. \n  \nREGISTER
URL:https://www.oepf.org/oepf-course/communication-reading-eye-movements-and-language-to-understand-patient-strategies-dr-geoff-heddle-coep/
CATEGORIES:Clinical Seminars,Live Courses
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