This book addresses the limited information about vision training and the importance of having knowledge of superior visual skills in our everyday, individualised environment like the classroom, workspace, and sports setting. It is an instruction manual explaining vision training in terms of what it can be used for and who can benefit from it. It provides examples of over two hundred exercises of twenty-three different visual skills, covering fundamental and advanced skills, also including visual perceptual skills and sport-specific skills . It explains the tests that an eye care professional can do to determine the level of a patient/athlete’s visual skills to regulate where improvement needs to be done. Written in a concise manner and supplemented with insightful visual materials, the book will allow the reader to formulate an individualised program according to the needs of the patient/athlete.
1: Introduction; 2: The Visual System; 3: The Anatomy of the Eye; 4: Physiology and Development of the Human Eye; 5: Vision Related Conditions; 6: Introduction to Vision Training; 7: Preparing a Vision Training Program; 8: Phases of Vision Training; 9: Testing the Visual Skills: Visual Acuity; 10: Testing the Visual Skills: Contrast Sensitivity, Eye Dominance, Fixation; 11: Testing the Visual Skills: Ocular Alignment;12: Testing the Visual Skills: Colour Vision, Accommodation; 13: Testing the Visual Skills: Smooth Pursuits, Visual Field; 14: Testing the Visual Skills: Vergences, Saccades; 15: Testing the Visual Skills: Stereopsis, Suppression, Vestibular Ocular Reflex; 16: Testing the Visual skills: Visual Acuity (Dynamic), Fusion Flexibility, Reaction Time, Peripheral Awareness 17: Testing the Visual Skills: Visualisation, Eye-Hand Coordination, Eye-Body Coordination, Sequencing;18: Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Fixation; 19: Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Ocular Alignment; 20. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Accommodation; 21. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Smooth Pursuits; 22. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Vergences; 23. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Saccades; 24. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Stereopsis, Suppression. 25. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Vestibular Ocular Reflex; 26. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Fusion Flexibility, Reaction Time; 27. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Peripheral Awareness; 28. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Visualisation; 29. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Eye-Hand Coordination, Eye-Body Coordination; 30. Treatment and Training of the Visual Skills: Sequencing; 31. Methods to increase the level of difficulty (loading); 32. Visual Perception; 33. Activities to Train the Visual Perceptual Skills; 34. Introduction to Sport Vision; 35. Sport Vision – Referees; 36. Sport Vision – Cricket; 37. Sport Vision – Soccer; 38. Sport Vision – Field Hockey; 39. Sport Vision – Rugby; 40. Sport Vision – Netball; 41. Sport Vision – Golf; 42. Sport Vision – Tennis; 43. Sport Vision – Mixed Martial Arts; 44. Sport Vision – Table Tennis; 45. Sport Vision – Target Shooting
Biography
Nadia Jankielsohn is an Optometrist at West Bay Medicare in Doha, Qatar. Her career started after finishing Human Movement Science and honours in Kinder Kinetics at The University of the Free State, South Africa. She started training as a Visual Therapist in 2010 and dedicated most of her time to this specialised field. In 2015 she finished her Optometry degree. She then continued to work in the field of Optometry and Ophthalmology, while focusing on behavioural Optometry. She kept striving to train more optometrists and students on the subject, presented courses at university and to fellow optometrists. In 2019 she started in Qatar and continued her dedication to eye care and vision training. She started this project in 2010, building on the text and changing the content as she gained new knowledge and experience on the subject.
