Optometric and Sensory Motor Changes in an Adult

Abstract

This case study was designed to determine whether an adult with definable visual problems and sensory motor dysfunction would respond to a prescribed, periodically monitored home program of sensory motor activities. The subject was a 27-year-old college student who reported lifelong difficulties in visual-postural mechanisms which were documented through an Occupational Therapy initial evaluation, administered by Occupational Therapists, and the Functional Visual Evaluation, administered by a Vision Therapist. An individualized home program, which included predominantly vestibular and proprioceptive activities, was followed by the subject for six months. Retesting showed positive increases in both postural mechanisms and the visual system. A need for collaboration between Occupational Therapists, Developmental Optometrists and Vision Therapists for the purpose of specifically recording hard data to document visual deficits and the effects of occupational therapy programs to remediate problem areas is discussed.