Hemianopia: The Hidden Impairment Following PCA Stroke: Functional Limitations, Assessment and Intervention

Session Objectives:

• Describe the functional limitations that persons with hemianopia experience.
• Identify the key behaviors that indicate that your client may have a hemianopia.
• Identify screening assessments to describe visual the field deficit and its effect on functional performance.
• Identify key intervention strategies that enable the client to compensate for the hemianopia in reading, writing, mobility and activities of daily living.