Visual Dysfunction and Brain Injury – Part 2: Applying ABI Guidelines and Practical Vision Therapy

Course Overview

Haere mai / Welcome to this one-day course designed for therapists who have previously completed the original Visual Dysfunction and Brain Injury course. This follow-up focuses on deepening your understanding of post-trauma vision syndromes and applying new, practical vision treatment techniques within rehabilitation programmes.

What you’ll learn:

• Review the most common visual impairments following stroke and TBI

• Explore Post Trauma Vision Syndrome and its impact on functional recovery

• Understand how the vestibular and visual systems interact in rehabilitation

• Apply acute assessment and management guidelines for visual symptoms post-injury

• Practise a range of functional vision exercises designed in collaboration with Behavioural Optometry specialists

Topics covered include:

• Spatial processing, visual stabilisation, and vestibular-visual rehabilitation

• Hemianopia rehabilitation approaches and considerations for driving

• Safe clinical practices for managing acute visual symptoms (e.g. diplopia)

• Therapy exercises and treatment options including prism glasses and binasal occlusion

• Indicators for onward referral to optometry or ophthalmology

Included:

A detailed course manual filled with assessment guides, therapy exercise resources, and practical tools to support your mahi (work) in neurological rehabilitation.