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Apple Accessibility Features for Visual Impairments
May 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with visual impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
I Spy Activity
April 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This tabletop exercise provides questions that target cognition, language, and visual perceptual skills.
Visual-Motor Integration Activity
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This table-top activity is a fun way to target this important skill. Alternative treatment options and graded modifications for implementing the task are included.
Visual Neglect (Hemispatial Inattention) vs. Visual Field Cut (Homonymous Hemianopsia)
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout explains the difference between visual neglect and visual field cut. It provides information about how they are different and ways to distinguish them. There are also some suggestions for treatment. Recommended for patients and their family to understand the difference between these two similar conditions with divergent treatment recommendations.
Visual Perceptual Skills
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout breaks down the different types of visual perceptual skills and provides examples of potential functional deficits that might present in individuals with visual perceptual dysfunction.
Visual Closure Tasks
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Visual closure skills are important for how we perceive our environment. This activity provides three methods for addressing visual closure deficits by having the patient match partial parts of an image to a whole, as well as select the correct partial piece of an image given multiple choices.
Unilateral Neglect Task: Matching Pictures to Movie Titles
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Features 9 pictures from classic movies with written movie titles. Cut out each box, place the pictures on the right side and the titles on the left. This task is designed to target bi-lateral visual attention for patients experiencing unilateral neglect.
Understanding Spatial Relationships
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This therapy material allows the clinician to determine the patient’s accuracy with the visual-spatial relationships with these questions to locate target numbers among various shapes.
Three Low Vision Visual Attention Tasks for the Right Brain
January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
These three tasks challenge awareness of both the right and left sides of a page, alternating attention as needed, with all text designed to be appropriate for low-vision patients.