Moving and Seeing - Understanding and Promoting 
Visual-Vestibular Integration in Praxis

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Intermediate.
  • Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Performance Skills, and Intervention
  • Audience: Occupational therapists, OT assistants, 

    Physical therapists, PT assistants and students, Speech and language therapists.

  • Completion Requirements: To earn contact hours for this course participants must view this course in its entirety, and successfully complete the accompanying course quiz
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Course overview

This webinar explores the critical connection between visual-vestibular functioning and praxis development. Participants will gain insight into the role the visual and vestibular sensory systems play in the development of praxis skills. The course also reviews the underlying neuroanatomy and presents practical, evidence-informed intervention strategies for supporting visual-vestibular integration within a praxis framework.

This course utilizes a PowerPoint presentation. Slides are available for download.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

Describe how visual-vestibular skills relate to and impact praxis functioning.

Identify the neuroanatomical foundations of visual-vestibular-related praxis functions.

Identify several intervention strategies to address visual-vestibular integration in praxis intervention. 
Teresa A. May-Benson,
ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teresa is an expert occupational therapist renowned for her clinical research, mentoring and education related to related to sensory integration theory and intervention, praxis, and social competency. She is currently the owner/CEO of TMB Education, LLC and serves as President and practicing occupational therapist at OTR, Inc, a private occupational therapy practice specializing in sensory integration and social competency for children and adults across the lifespan, located near Philadelphia, PA. Dr. May-Benson has a diverse background as a clinical practitioner, having worked in private and public-school settings as well as private practice. She has authored numerous book chapters and articles on praxis and sensory integration and completed her doctoral dissertation on ideational praxis. Teresa is an education and research faculty member at the SPIRAL Foundation. In her role of educator, she currently serves as adjunct faculty at Widener University and is past faculty at Tufts University and the University of Indianapolis. She has received the Virginia Scardinia Award of Excellence from AOTA for her work in ideational praxis and is the 2023 recipient of the AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award.

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