Presented by Randy Schulman, MS, OD, FCOVD
The TBI Seminaris for practitioners wishing to gain a better understanding of how to best manage these complicated, complex and challenging cases in optometric practice.
30 Days
12 hours
$450
The TBI Seminaris for practitioners wishing to gain a better understanding of how to best manage these complicated, complex and challenging cases in optometric practice.
Attendees will learn how to diagnose, prescribe, and treat these patients using a behavioral and integrative model. Participants will learn about how brain injuries,whether from stroke, motor vehicle accidents or sports injury including concussion,affect the brain, the body and the mind. The various areas that are affected,including balance, vestibular, auditory, visual, sensory and motor systems will be presented within an intersensory model. How to diagnose and treat specific visual impacts including ocular health, oculomotor, accommodative, binocular, visual field, attention, and memory will be discussed and how it affects posture, balance, cognitive function, visual motor and auditory visual integration and activities for daily living. Treatment modalities include the use of our optometric tools, lenses, prisms, occlusion, tints, optometric visual rehabilitation, optometric phototherapy and more.
Case reports of various types and severities of injuries are discussed as well as their collaboration with other practitioners.
Finally, participants will learn best practices for successfully working with these patients and the other professionals who care for them and how to provide ongoing, supportive care.
This course is suitable for both new practitioners as well as established practitioners. Vision therapists will also gain a working knowledge for the therapy room.
Dr. Schulman graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She graduated with her Doctorate in Optometry and Masters in Vision Science degrees from the State University of New York, College of Optometry. Dr. Schulman received her Fellowship in the College of Optometrists for Vision Development and is an Associate member of the Optometric Extension Program, in addition to being an Adjunct Professor at the State University of New York College of Optometry. Dr. Schulman has lectured extensively on behavioral optometry topics such as vision in the classroom, vision and aging, visual difficulties in the developmentally delayed, and lectured and published on vision and autism. She specializes in behavioral optometry and vision therapy, pediatrics, learning disabilities and preventative, integrative and alternative vision care for all ages.