Occupational Therapist trained in Vision Therapy by an Optometrist also do vision therapy and can bill for these services. Amy Hadley, OTR/L, COMS On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Levingston, Brandi < Brandi.Levingston@unt.edu> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your responses. This has been some great > information for me and my friend. > > > > *Brandi D. Levingston, PhD, CRC* > > Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator > > Department of Disability & Addiction Rehabilitation > > University of North Texas > > 1155 Union Circle #311456 > > Denton, TX 76203-5017 > > (940) 565-2234 (voice, TTY) > > (940) 565-3960 (fax) > > *Brandi.Levingston@unt.edu <Brandi.Levingston@unt.edu>* > > > > *From:* Coby Livingstone [mailto:coby.livingstone@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:12 PM > *To:* HOLLINGER, KEVIN <Kevin.Hollinger@fhsdschools.org> > *Cc:* Levingston, Brandi <Brandi.Levingston@unt.edu>; AER < > aernet@lists.aerbvi.org> > *Subject:* Re: [AERNet] Vision therapy > > > > KEVIN, > > Thank you very much for forwarding the handout that explains Vision > Therapy and OVT, etc. > > > > I think it's great when CLVT, CVRT TVI, CRC in Blind Rehab and COMS...all > share great information in our practice! > > > > Coby Livingstone, Ma , OT/L, CVRT > > New Mexico > > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:58 AM, HOLLINGER, KEVIN < > Kevin.Hollinger@fhsdschools.org> wrote: > > My colleague and I developed this handout and provide it to families > seeking info about OVT. We have found it very successful in educating > parents and other related professions about VI vs. OVT. We stress OVT is a > medical intervention not an educational service that we can “provide.” > Often times a family pursues it and then when the insurance coverage runs > out, the family asks the school to implement the therapy (which we cannot > do obviously). We also routinely get OVT reports with 15+ recommendations > they ask the school to implement – so that is often times quite a > discussion and some families ask for a 504 as a result. These > accommodations may include preferential seating, visual "breaks," reduced > assignment lengths, increase spacing/reduce clutter (which is next to > impossible with commercially produced materials, textbooks, etc. unless you > use the VoiceDream app for all documents). > > There is also a large document (a position paper so to speak) that was > distributed by many ophthalmologic groups - you should be able to find it > on google. As you know, OVT is very controversial among Optometrist and > Ophthalmologists and I see our job as helping the families understand our > roles as TVIs and O&Ms regarding our scopes of practice. > > Hope this helps. > > Kevin > > > > *From:* AERNet [mailto:aernet-bounces@lists.aerbvi.org] *On Behalf Of *Levingston, > Brandi > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:01 AM > *To:* AER <aernet@lists.aerbvi.org> > *Subject:* [AERNet] Vision therapy > > > > Hello All, > > > > I have a friend working with a in an elementary school student whose > mother requested vision therapy services for eye teaming. I am not as > familiar with this and thought I would reach out to see if anyone had heard > of this type of therapy. Any guidance is greatly appreciated. > > > > *Brandi D. Levingston, PhD, CRC* > > Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator > > Department of Disability & Addiction Rehabilitation > > University of North Texas > > 1155 Union Circle #311456 > > Denton, TX 76203-5017 > > (940) 565-2234 (voice, TTY) > > (940) 565-3960 (fax) > > Brandi.Levingston@unt.edu > > > > > You are subscribed to AERNet, The Association for Education and > Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired Listserv. > > To post a message to all the list members, send an email to > aernet@lists.aerbvi.org. > > Address list requests to: aernet-request@lists.aerbvi.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, go to http://lists.aerbvi.org/ > mailman/listinfo/aernet_lists.aerbvi.org and follow instructions to > unsubscribe. 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