This postgraduate diploma in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance will generate a sense of confidence when fulfilling your profession, which will help you grow both personally and professionally"

This program makes professionals in this field increase their capacity for success, which results in a better practice and performance that will have a direct impact on the educational treatment, on the improvement of the educational system and on the social benefit for the whole community.

In response to the demand for professionals prepared to detect and intervene in the field of problems associated with vision, this program focused on education has been developed.

Special emphasis is placed on classroom learning, but above all, on the development of reading and writing skills, in order to learn how to detect visual problems, their consequences and the most appropriate way to intervene in each case.

An essential feature of this program is the description of both the symptomatology and the problems associated with visual impairment in the classroom, which enables a comprehensive approach to any adversity related to the visual system in academic performance.

A unique opportunity to contemplate the wide range of education with respect to visual system problems, covering the various interventions addressed with sufficient clarity to be applied in professional practice.

This program offers a broad and comprehensive view of the complex world of the visual system and its implications in different areas of life, including academia, gathering the different theoretical and practical approaches, so that any interested professional will first know what the visual system is, how it develops, what deficiencies it may present, how to detect them, and what interventions to carry out, all with the objective of making it applicable to the workplace.

This is an improvement over programs that focus on physiological bases and physical and functional problems; or exclusively psycho-pedagogical programs, where the implications of visual impairment in the educational system are studied in depth.

Update your knowledge through this program in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance”

This postgraduate diploma in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of practical cases presented by experts in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Latest developments on visual disturbances and academic performance
• It contains practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies on Visual Skills and Academic Performance
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This postgraduate diploma is the best investment you can make when selecting a refresher program, for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance, you will obtain a qualification endorsed by TECH Global University”

Its teaching staff includes professionals belonging to the field of teaching and pedagogy, who bring to this training the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists belonging to prestigious reference societies and universities.

Thanks to its multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is to say, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to prepare in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the educators must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the academic program. For this purpose, teachers will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system developed by renowned experts in the field of Visual Skills and School Academic with extensive teaching experience.

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Make the most of this opportunity to learn about the latest advances in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance and improve your student's performance"

This program in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance is oriented to facilitate professionals' work with students of all educational stages.

This program is designed to help you update your knowledge in Visual Impairment and Academic Performance, with the use of the latest educational technology, to contribute with quality and confidence to the decision-making and monitoring of your students"

General Objectives

• Update knowledge on the importance of the visual system in the classroom, with special emphasis on the appearance or presence of visual deficiencies or problems and future intervention, in order to increase the quality of professional praxis
• Introduce students to the wide world of visual problems in the classroom, and know the different contributions from the study of vision in academic achievement and the potential options for intervention
• Apply the tools used for visual impairment detection and the different alternatives for intervention and curricular or classroom material adaptation
• Enable the development of skills and abilities by encouraging continuous training and research

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Fundamentals of Learning and Academic Performance

• Understand the peculiarities of adult learning
• Recognize the role the senses play in learning
• Observe perception in learning
• Explore attention in learning
• Solve attention-related problems in learning: ADHD

Module 2. The Visual System

• Discover paralytic strabismus
• Learn about refractive strabismus
• Introduce monocular amblyopia
• Distinguish bilateral amblyopia
• Understand congenital nystagmus
• Learn about childhood nystagmus
• Identify myopia

Module 3. Visual Dysfunctions

• Discover the process of reading
• Learn about the developments associated with reading
• Introduce oral speech skills in reading
• Discern phonological awareness in reading
• Understand the logographic phase of reading
• Learn about the alphabetic phase of reading

Module 4. Ocular Pathology

• Discover the process of writing
• Learn about the development associated with writing
• Evaluate the planning module in writing
• Understand the intervention of the planning module in writing
• Understand the intervention of the lexical modules in writing

Acquire the theoretical knowledge and the practical tools necessary to be part of high-capacity Visual Impairment and Academic Performance projects"