This professional master’s degree in Visual Skills and Academic Performance will generate a sense of confidence when fulfilling your profession, helping you grow both personally and professionally"

This professional master’s degree 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 eminently 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

This broad overview provides a better understanding of how the visual system works, its problems and best practices for intervention, so that professionals can have different application options in their workplaces according to their interests.

This professional master’s degree addresses aspects related to visual impairment, both from the psychological and medical point of view, without losing sight of the determining role in academic performance.

Students of this professional master’s degree will have access to the latest advances in educational intervention for visual problems in learning both at a theoretical level, and will learn how to apply it in their present or future profession, thus offering a qualitative advantage over other professionals in the sector.

It also facilitates the incorporation of professionals into the labor market or helping them to get a promotion in their current job in the field. The course provides extensive theoretical and practical knowledge that will improve the professional skills of the students in their jobs

This program makes professionals in this field increase their capacity for success, which results in a better praxis 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.

Upgrade your knowledge through this program on Visual Skills and Academic Performance"

This professional master’s degree in Visual Skills and Academic Performance contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market.The most important features include:

• The development of more than 75 case studies presented by experts in Visual Skills 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 Skills and Academic Performance
• 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
• 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 Visual Skills and Academic Performance is the best investment you can make when selecting a refresher program, for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Visual Skills and Academic Performance, you will obtain a qualification endorsed by TECH Technological"

Its teaching staff includes professionals belonging to the field of Visual Skills and Academic Performance, who bring their work experience to this program, along with renowned specialists belonging to leading societies and prestigious 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 throughout the educational 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 Academic Performance with extensive teaching experience.

Increase your confidence in decision making by updating your knowledge through this program"

Make the most of this opportunity to learn about the latest advances in Visual Skills and Academic Performance and improve your students’ skill set"

This program is based on the latest scientific evidence, oriented to achieve an effective update and preparation in theoretical and practical professional knowledge related to the world of education, such as teachers and counselors, as well as health professionals, such as doctors, psychologists, speech therapists, pedagogues and psycho-pedagogues.

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

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
• Know the tools used to detect visual problems and the different alternative interventions used, as well as curricular adaptation or adaptation of classroom materials
• 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. Neurolinguistics

• Discover the neurons and neural networks associated with eye vision
• Learn about the specialized neurons of the eye, the rods and cones
• Introduce the sympathetic nervous system
• Understand the parasympathetic nervous system
• Distinguish between ocular nerves and ocular tracts
• Learn about the visual cortex

Module 3. 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 4. 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 5. Ocular Pathologies

• 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

Module 6. The Visual System and Reading

• Discover the evolutionary development of vision
• Introduce the development of vision in the educational environment
• Discern visual attention in learning
• Understand visual perception in learning
• Classify primary and association visual areas

Module 7. The Visual System and Writing

• Discover congenital visual impairment
• Learn about acquired visual impairment
• Establish the degree of vision
• Classify visual impairment by type
• Understand motor impairment associated with vision

Module 8. The Visual System and Learning

• Identify classroom difficulties associated with visual impairment
• Learn about the design and implementation visual impairment intervention
• Establish the detection and identification of visual impairment
• Understand adapting the pace of learning in the face of visual impairment
• Identify how to manage the timing of tasks in the face of visual impairment
• Design orientation techniques for the visually impaired

Module 9. Visual Disability and Educational Intervention

• Learn the definition of congenital blindness
• Discover acquired blindness
• Classify blindness according to type
• Introduce the evolution of blindness
• Discern the stages of development in blind people
• Understand cognitive development in blind people
• Learn about neural plasticity in blind people
• Learn about early multi-sensory stimulation
• Understand the role of the family in the blind 
• Distinguish peer influence in the classroom in the blind

Module 10. Ergonomics and Lighting

• Learn how to work with congenital blindness
• Know the symptomatology of acquired blindness
• Introduce posture and motor skills intervention in the blind
• Understand speech and communication intervention in the blind
• Understand the role of adaptations in reading and writing with Braille
• Select the best pedagogical adaptations for the blind based on the times

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