VISION 2022 ONLINE PANELS
Panel 01 – Paediatric Low Vision: Experiences from across the pond
Reflecting on and celebrating achievement.
This panel seeks to highlight the role clinicians have in the world of Paediatric vision rehabilitation. The presenters will share lessons learned.
Panel 02 – Clinical Low Vision Rehabilitation for all
Presenting what’s possible now.
Low Vision Rehabilitation aims at providing clinical solutions to all aspects of visual impairment related disabilities. This involves different devices, methods and training protocols and it is multidisciplinary in nature. Rehabilitation of cases with visual impairments due to loss of macular functions traditionally involves use of magnification. In cases with tunnel vision the emphasis is on field expansion orientation and mobility training. Vision rehabilitation of cases with stroke involves field expansion and field restitution methods as well as orientation and mobility training. In children, in addition to the principles listed above one has to take into account other sensory disabilities present. This panel aims to review and present the latest in Low Vision Rehabilitation available today for all.
Panel 03 – Recent Advances and New Directions of Investigation in Cerebral Visual Impairment
Presenting what’s possible now.
CVI is the most common cause of paediatric visual impairment. Individuals with CVI exhibit a broad range of visual dysfunctions. This panel will discuss recent advances as well as novel approaches for functional visual assessment including virtual reality and eye tracking methodologies. Novel clinical intervention strategies, associations with other neurodevelopmental factors and directions for future research will also be discussed.
Panel 04 – Increasing Understanding of Combined Vision and Hearing Impairment, Focusing on Aging and Acquired Sensory Loss
Presenting what’s possible now.
This panel wishes to raise awareness around topics on aging with combined vision and hearing impairment, and to allow interested researchers and service providers to network and find common ground for future collaborative research and knowledge translation.
Panel 05 – Current frontiers in low vision rehabilitation
Making the impossible a reality.
Recent Technological advances introduced to Low Vision rehabilitation interventional devices, methods and techniques are of great benefit to visually impaired patients. Presentations in this panel will discuss a range of devices and interventions, including portable and wearable CCTV units, Apps on portable devices, retinal implants, Photobiomodulation to boost cellular metabolism, and laser refractive surgery to enhance visual perception with the peripheral retina. Discussion will also include the understanding of brain plasticity and its role in vision rehabilitation.
Panel 06 – Rehabilitation, education and empowerment of visually impaired children and youngsters: Achievements and challenges in Africa and the Middle East
Presenting what’s possible now.
This panel, from Visio International, discusses programmes currently running in six countries. By strengthening existing structures in close collaboration with local stakeholders, each programme aims to improve the lives of people living with visual impairment in a sustainable way. All Visio International programmes are based on four pillars: Empowerment, Quality, Accessibility and Affordability. The programme will share experiences from programmes in Uganda, South Africa, The West Bank, Botswana and Ghana.
Panel 07 – Innovations in assessment, diagnostics and classification of childhood cerebral visual impairment: towards consensus clinical standards
Making the impossible a reality.
This panel brings together colleagues from leading European multidisciplinary clinical and research centres to share innovations in screening, assessments, diagnostics and profiling and classification, drawing on novel research evidence and practice. The panel will inform on a new European consensus group working towards developing evidence based clinical practice guidelines to support the practice of the future.
Panel 08 – Congenital Deafblindness in Children and Across the Lifespan
Presenting what’s possible now.
This panel wishes to raise awareness around topics on congenital deafblindness and the challenges it brings across lifespan development. It will allow interested researchers and service providers to network and find common ground for future collaborative research and knowledge translation.
Panel 09 – Academic Programmes Worldwide
Reflecting on and celebrating achievement.
The panel will present an overview of academic programs that prepare professionals to work with individuals who have low vision. The speakers represent most of the major disciplines that are involved in the provision of vision rehabilitation throughout the lifespan: ophthalmology, optometry, occupational therapy, and traditional vision rehabilitation. The programs that are described differ in their style and language of instruction, in their structure, and in their geographical scope. Taken together, they will inform attendees of the varieties of academic preparation that are available in the early 21st century for individuals who ultimately form the interdisciplinary teams that provide services to the low vision population.
Panel 10 – Low vision services in a resource scarce environment: experiences from Uganda, West Bank and Egypt
Presenting what’s possible now.
The presentations will showcase and provide examples of different aspects that matter to promote low vision services in a country. This will include examples of policy development, developing human resources, tailor made rehabilitation and showing the added value of a screening programme. All the examples have been initiated in resource scarce environments and show what it is worth to believe in possibilities.
Panel 11 – Low vision service delivery models in USA
Presenting what’s possible now.
This panel explores various low vision service delivery models. It will be an interactive discussion about the academic, non-profit and private practice models, and working in urban versus rural settings.
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