Just to introduce myself. I work for an organisation which specialises in assessing a persons fitness to drive. This is usually after a period of illness (quite often stroke) or a diagnosis of some kind. I have a particular interest in Visual Inattention and ways to assess this especially if a person has aphasia. I don't have any specific questions at the moment but look forward to sharing ideas in the future!

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Hello All!

I have an adult patient who suffered a stroke that has reported issues with her visual processing and visual processing speed. She has completed the MVPT with pretty fair accuracy and had nothing out of the norm in her standard vision screen. The patient also has issues with motor planning/apraxia (attempted to tie her shoes by bringing her left hand to her left shoe and right hand to her right shoe but wasn't sure why she wasn't able to tie her shoes). Prior to her injury, she was a very successful business woman who lived a full life working and traveling.

Should further visual processing testing be done? If so, what assessments would you all recommend? I'm thinking we track her visual processing speeds and try to quicken her pace with a variety of activities.

Thanks everyone!

Hi All, I have been working in paediatrics my entire career, focusing on sensory integration, specifically motor skills, including dyspraxia and DCD. I am intrigued by neurology and the processes involved in motor planning, integrating senses such as proprioception and vestibular, and how they affect the functions and development of children.

Is anybody else working in these fields?

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I work in a rural hospital inpatient unit - acute and mainly older persons rehab. i have trained in the above assessment and have applied this assessment to functional assessment when working in acute mental health. I am curious to discuss this assessments use in an inpatient physical health setting. Currently we (the health directorate for the region) use a "kitchen assessment" template - basically a template breaking the activity down into tasks and dividing them into either physical or cognitive areas.

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Hi All,

I am new to this circle and Neuro :-).

I am a third year degree apprentice OT, and am hoping to engage with neuro as a specialist area for my final year, and post qualification. Hoping to engage with lots of interesting neuro chat and ideas.

I have begun to develop my reading around this topic but would be really glad to have any nuggets of wisdom, useful assessment ideas/ strategies, journal articles, books etc...

My are of work is community adult rehab.

Hoping to get to know this community really well 😁