The role of the Occupational Therapist for learners with low vision

The role of the Occupational Therapist for learners with low vision

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Clare will start the webinar by stressing the importance of a sound Visual Acuity assessment with best correction is stressed as a starting point for Occupational Therapy intervention. She will describe the need low vision assessments and a completed DBE 126 assessment Optometrists and Ophthalmologists for school-age children. Findings on a low vision assessment provides opportunity for the school to ensure optimal accommodations for learners. The Occupational Therapists providing low vision children with therapy will apply low vision principles. This webinar will outline the general low vision principals when adapting teaching and learning materials and activities of daily living for learners. Occupational Therapists will adapt the task or the environment, provide training in low vision equipment and assistive devices such as lighting and magnifiers, and teach visual techniques such as eccentric viewing, tracking or scanning. Within the context of the classroom or school environment the Occupational Therapist will need to adapt the scholastic tasks of reading, spelling, drawing and writing, mathematics, organising desk space and mobility in the classroom, as well as adapt outdoor play and formal physical education and sports, to allow learners to participate maximally in the classroom and school. The speaker will also include the use of assistive technology and how these can enhance a learners’ participation in the classroom.

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Clare Hubbard

Clare graduated with a BSc Occupational Therapy in 1991 from WITS University and has had a varied and rich career working in South Africa and for an 8-year period in the UK. Her specialist qualifications and professional interests are in neurodevelopmental therapy (paediatrics), inclusive education and early childhood intervention and research into the effectiveness of a push-in model of provision of therapy services in mainstream schools. Recently she has renewed her professional interest in the field of low-vision, driven by the poor eye health services in the Eastern Cape.

In her current position in the Eastern Cape Department of Education she consults extensively on children’s’ rights to quality education, inclusion and specialist therapeutic support and assistive technology and accommodations in the classroom and in assessment.

Clare completed her master’s degree in occupational therapy in 2013 and a post-graduate diploma in Healthcare Professions Education at UCT in December 2021. She also completed a post-graduate Diploma in Remedial Education in 2024 with University of Johannesburg.

She has served on several OTASA and intersectoral committees to enhance services to persons with disabilities and continues to strive to promote Occupational Therapy in a range of practice areas, including low vision. She was involved in the development of the taxonomy for OTASA to have OTs specialize in low vision.

PREVIOUSLY ACCREDITED: 2025

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