Visual impairment

By: Elise Houk

Table Of Contents

Diagnosis
01 What is their specific visual
impairment and how it
relates to their treatment? Sample Session Plan
04 What does a session with
The client them look like?
02 What do we know about
them? Works Cited
05 Here is where I got my
information from!
Goals and Objectives
03
Here are the things they need
to work on.
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the Diagnosis
Anophthalmia and Fraser Syndrome

Anophthalmia Fraser Syndrome Affects

A birth defect where the baby
is born without 1 or both
eyes.
The client has worn
Rare genetic disorder where prosthetic eyes, showing
eyelids are fused together, skin delays in many domain areas
between fingers and toes also
appears. Only 250 cases world
wide have ever been reported
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the Client
The Client

Goals
Mainly focusing on motor control with
posture, control and range of motion.

Songs used
Wild Thing, All Shook Up, Na Na Hey Hey
Name: C Kiss Him Goodbye, and Fly Away.
Age: 14 years
Diagnosis: Anophthalmia and
Fraser syndrome Other info
They are already in a school for blind or
Goal domain areas: Motor visually impaired students. It has access to lots
of health services. Does group and individual
sessions.
Treatment team: PT, OT and
teachers
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Goals and Objectives
Goals and Objectives
Goals
Having C hold their head up and
Increasing muscle strength and
control over their trunk.
Objectives
At the end of the treatment period (1 year),
C will complete 16 repetitions of specific
head exercises 80% of the time 3 times per
week across 3 weeks.
At the end of the treatment period, C will
complete 16 repetitions of specific trunk
stability exercises 80% of the time 3 times
per week across 3 weeks
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Session Documents
Assessment

● Gait assessment
● Muscle assessment
Session Plan

1. Start with a Hello Song

2. First posture intervention
3. Tambourine intervention
4. Trunk strength
5. Egg hunt game
6. End with a Goodbye song
Egg Hunt Game
This intervention focuses on orientation and
continues to encourage muscle building.
1. Client will choose an egg
2. Shake the egg make sure we haven’t opened
it already
3. The paper inside of it will give a clue or a
destination to go to
4. The client and the therapist will walk along
to songs that C likes.
5. Once you get to the destination repeat as
many times as needed.
Termination Plan

● In order for music therapy services to be terminated,

the client will to meet the goals and objectives and
past a post assessment evaluation.
● When terminating services telling the client two
weeks before about the change would give them time
to process it.
● Reminding them that during the last session with the
client that this is the last music therapy session.
● Leave a home version of some of the interventions
for the parents incase they see decrease in muscle
strength.
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Works Cited
Where I got my information from
Works Cited
● Assessing core strength and stability for sitting | Skills for Action. (n.d.). Skillsforaction.com. Retrieved

December 15, 2021, from https://skillsforaction.com/assess-sitting-core-strength-stability-child

● CDC. (2019, December 5). Facts about Anophthalmia / Microphthalmia | CDC. Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/anophthalmia-microphthalmia.html

● Easter Egg Hunt: O&M Orientation Lesson. (n.d.). Www.perkinselearning.org.

https://www.perkinselearning.org/technology/blog/easter-egg-hunt-om-orientation-lesson
● ‌Fraser syndrome | Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) – an NCATS Program. (n.d.).
Rarediseases.info.nih.gov.
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6465/fraser-syndrome#:~:text=Fraser%20syndrome%20is%20a%
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Works Cited (Cont.)
● Functional Gait Assessment. (n.d.). Physiopedia. https://www.physio-pedia.com/Functional_Gait_Assessment