Foundation Module
This module includes module 1 activities for oculomotor, accommodative, binocular and visual information processing training. The Foundation Module is a 12-week program with activities 5 days a week. It lays the foundation for advanced modules.
Eye Tracking: Oculomotor Training
Oculomotor skills allow us to accurately direct our eyes in the task of reading. This requires the ability to maintain steady visual attention on a target (fixation); the ability to quickly and accurately jump from one target to another (saccades); and, the ability to smoothly follow a moving target (pursuits). Poor eye movements account for loss of place when reading, misreading or skipping lines or words, or the need to follow printed words with one's finger.
Eye Teaming: Accommodation Training
Accommodation is the ability to focus one’s eyes quickly and accurately for different distances in order to avoid blurry vision. Deficient accommodative skills may result in discomfort or redness of the eyes, headaches, rapid fatigue, or difficulty shifting between the chalkboard and desk as well as occasional blurring of vision.​​
Eye Teaming: Binocular Training
Binocular vision is the ability of the two eyes to work together as a coordinated team to capture an image to send to the brain. This skill is responsible for depth perception and three-dimensional vision. Deficient binocular skills very often result in discomfort or redness of the eyes, headaches, double or blurred vision, or fatigue. The excess effort expended in coordinating the eyes may interfere with the ability to comprehend reading material.​
Visual Information Processing
Visual perception is the brain’s ability to interpret, analyze and give meaning to what is seen. It impacts a person's ability to understand and make sense of what they see, which can lead to difficulties in various areas like reading, writing, spatial awareness, and hand-eye coordination.
The following areas will be targetted in module 1:
Bilteral Integration activities to develop a foundation of internal organization and control of both sides of the body.
Laterlity/Directionality activities to develop an understanding of left and right in relation to self, people and objects.
Visual Spatial activities to delveop spatial awareness.
Visual Motor activies to develop eye hand coordination.
Visual Memory activities to develop the ability to remember things seen, including shapes, objects, and locations, by storing and retrieving visual information.
Central Peripheral Integration activities to develop an awareness of peripheral space as related to self.
Primitive Reflexes Training
Primitive reflexes are the first building blocks of movement and help establish the pathways for responses that later emerge as integrated motor control. When they are retained or fail to become fully integrated, they interfere with optimal development. However, when primitive reflexes become integrated, they provide a strong foundation for more sophisticated and specialized voluntary movement patterns, like those needed for good eye movement control, focusing, eye teaming, bilateral integration, eye-hand coordination, and visual-motor integration.
