Read the filed learning objectives verbatim — this is the AOTA-approved wording.
Objectives:
• Administer a criterion-referenced, performance-based visual assessment protocol following standardized procedure — setup, working distance, stimulus presentation, prompting limits, and observation recording — achieving at least 90% procedural fidelity, so that findings can be used to describe a client's occupational performance.
• Select developmentally and contextually appropriate assessment conditions (age band, stimulus set, environment) for a given client and state, in writing, the two client or contextual factors that drove the selection, so that assessment conditions match the client's actual occupational context (classroom, home, clinic, work).
• Apply basal and ceiling rules and a hierarchical progression of visual performance demands during performance-based assessment, correctly identifying the stopping point and the client's achieved performance level to produce a profile that guides occupation-based intervention planning.
• Score a completed performance-based visual assessment protocol and interpret the results in terms of the occupational performance breakdown they produce, naming the visual performance factor most likely accounting for the breakdown with a written rationale for each of three case vignettes.
• Translate visual assessment findings into a written occupational performance statement that names the occupation (e.g., copying from the board, sustained silent reading, legible written output), the visual performance factor limiting it, and the observed impact on participation, meeting all three elements of the provided rubric.
• Document visual assessment results in occupational therapy scope language suitable for an IEP present-levels statement or plan of care, including at least one occupation-based measurable statement of current performance, without using terminology reserved for medical eye care or optometric vision therapy.
• Apply scope-of-practice and referral decision rules, consistent with the AOTA scope of practice and the 2025 AOTA Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics, to determine for each of five completed protocols whether the client proceeds to further occupational therapy assessment, to occupation-based intervention, or to referral for medical eye care, and justify each disposition as the next occupation-based step.
• Identify validity threats to any performance-based visual assessment — incomplete basal or ceiling, environmental deviation, fatigue, attention, and unfamiliar stimulus content — and describe in writing how each is recorded and how it constrains interpretation, so that a client's participation in reading, written work, and other daily occupations is not misjudged and occupational therapy services are not misallocated.