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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · 7d

🧠 Big welcome to Jackie Ferraro, who’s joining our team as a doctoral researcher! Jackie explores how kids with Cerebral Visual Impairment experience cluttered spaces like classrooms and shops. She’s got a cool mix of neuroscience, psychology, and creative arts in her background.🎉 #CVI #AcademicLife

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Jun 25

Still buzzing 🐝 after a fantastic day at #OTAUS2025 My #PosterSkirt was a great conversation starter 👗 Such a warm welcome from OT Australia. Sharing behind-the-scenes with you here.

Massive thanks to astroradioleah.bsky.social‬ as sewing teacher and to Imy (10) for making video “less cringe”

Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Jun 25

Looking forward to learn about OT stroke services. We were off to a great start with Ellen Druce on supporting patients with their independent practice, Tayla Grant on activity based rehab in in-patient settings, and Natasha Lannin and Sally Day on falls prevention #OTA2025

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Jun 19

Getting ready for conferences and lab visits in Brisbane. If you're attending
🧠 #OHBM2025
👀 #IOC2025
🤯 #PacificRim2025
or you're just in Brisbane between 28th June and 5th July, get in touch! I would love to talk all things brains, eyes, and neuropsychology.

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · May 29

Started a slightly different project recently with Leah Morabito! It has everything I love: learning something new, creative problem solving, and a high nerdiness level 🤓 Result will be revealed in a few weeks.

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Apr 23

🧠🎓 Funded PhD opportunity @durhampsych.bsky.social!
Explore why cluttered spaces are hard for kids with brain-related visual impairment.
4 yrs funding by @fightforsight.bsky.social | Start Oct 2025

🔗 Details: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

#PhD #ChildHealth #Neuropsychology #VisualImpairment

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Anna Forringer-Beal @annaf-b.bsky.social · Apr 3

Are you a Dutch & English fluent researcher looking to work on an anti-trafficking policy project? Check out the Leverhulme Project, 'Interpreting the Governance of Human Trafficking Law' led by @nicktur.bsky.social

#academicjobs #research #jobs #postdoc
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate - ‘Interpreting the Governance of Human Trafficking: explaining policy practice’:Gent,Belgium

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Apr 2

We are taking a little break from posting educational videos to focus on our research.

In the meantime, you can find all our previous videos in this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Visual Perception difficulties after a brain injury - YouTube

Series of short videos on visual perception difficulties after a brain injury and how to support people with such difficulties. Can be used as Continuous Pro...

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Apr 2

This week's training video is about our own Oxford Visual Perception Screening test for vision issues after a stroke.

Screen for object and face recognition difficulties, reading impairments, neglect, visuospatial issues and more in 15 min with this paper-and-pen test.

youtu.be/uXQPMTw4l5Q

The Oxford Visual Perception Screen

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Mar 24

One week left! It's only 5 minutes and you get a bunch of FREE training resources at the end.

We want to hear from @britishneuropsych.bsky.social @bios-orthoptics.bsky.social @aotinews.bsky.social @theotshow.bsky.social

Completed + share with your networks and show us the magic of BlueSky.

Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Jan 7

👩‍⚕️ OTs and Orthoptists 👨‍⚕️ New survey about current practice of visual perception difficulties after a brain injury: tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt.
Results will inform new training and clinical tools. ⏳ 5-10 min 🏆 15 free posters about visual perception difficulties + rehab advice, see 🔽. Thank you!!

Achromatopsia poster. It shows a drawing of glasses. In one lens you can see letters in all colours. In the other lens, the same letters are in black and white. At the bottom there are come colouring pencils. A cartoon character is pointing to the yellow pencil and says 'what colour is this?' another character is saying 'yellow'. At the top is a post-it note that says '22% of stroke survivors will have some form of achromatopsia'. The main text reads: "This refers to a difficulty recognising or perceiving colour. The world can appear in shades of grey, or just look more dull. This can make it hard to tell the difference between similar shades of colours such as yellow and green. Difficulties can be restricted to either the left or right side of vision, or can cover both sides. There is no cure for achromatopsia, but managing its symptoms can look like: asking others to point out the colours of things, wearing tinted lenses to help with light sensitivity, using technology like apps to identify colour"

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Mar 17

We're back again with a new video on assessing visual perception difficulties. This time we focus on object agnosias. How to easily tell apart associative, apperceptive agnosia and optic aphasia. 🧑‍🎓🩺🧠

Find out: youtu.be/1W4F7Wp0qcA

Assessment of object agnosias

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Mar 13

One last call for our survey tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt !
We need ~50 #OT and #orthoptist by 31st March. Do you have 10 minutes? Can you share with 5 colleagues?

@rowenapadamsey.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @laurenhepworth.bsky.social @willchegwidden.bsky.social

Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Mar 10

We continue our video series with another one on assessment. This time, we explore tools for assessing perceptual organisation. What are your favourite instruments?

youtu.be/41gXzWypYQw

@durhampsych.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social

Assessment of Perceptual Organisation

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Mar 7

One way to comprehensively assess visual functions after a brain injury is with the Birmingham Object Recognition Battery. We briefly introduce the BORB in the our latest video.

youtu.be/93pDcSTki20

Birmingham Object Recognition Battery

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 28

A very exciting day! After 7 years with @neledemeyere.bsky.social, the first paper on the Oxford Visual Perception Screen got published! OxVPS is a new free and simple tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems.

OxVPS: oxvps.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0269...

Home - Oxford Visual Perception Screen

The Oxford Visual Perception Screen or OxVPS is a screening tool that checks for a wide range of visual perception problems after brain injury such as object recognition, face recognition, reading, ey...

oxvps.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 25

Next up in our series on assessment instruments for visual perception issues after a stroke: the OT-APST

youtu.be/9B1492nkcsg

Have you use it before? What are your experiences?

Occupational Therapy Adult Perceptual Screening Test

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 21

In our next videos on visual cognition difficulties after a brain injury, we'll cover ways to assess and screen for it.
First up is the Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery youtu.be/A_95-A57RO4

Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 18

Here is a clickable link: youtu.be/UUFHO4SQhwY

What is Optic aphasia?

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

youtu.be

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 17

Simultanagnosia???? It's difficulties with seeing more than one thing at the time and can happen after brain injury.
📽️
Learn more in our video youtu.be/IyzJbgbK1Iw
Check out the whole series
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Training for health professionals 🧑‍⚕️🏥

What is Simultanagnosia?

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 14

Optic aphasia! Is it agnosia 👁️? Is it aphasia 👄? It's a bit of both: difficulties with naming objects when shown visually.

Check out our video to learn more: 🧑‍🎓https://youtu.be/UUFHO4SQhwY

@durhampsych.bsky.social

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 10

Next up in our series of visual perception conditions: Associative Agnosia. 🏫🧑‍🎓

After a brain injury people can have difficulties with recognising object. 🧠🚲

Find out what's happening in their brain here youtu.be/AWqhjwF0Crw

What is Associative Agnosia?

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

youtu.be

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Amy Pearson @dramypearson.bsky.social · Feb 6

A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached.

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 6

Apperceptive agnosia. That's a mouth full! It's basically issues with building a coherent picture out of all the colours and shapes that catch our eyes. 🧑‍🎓
Learn more here youtu.be/KlHUJ5yGsmk

Apperceptive agnosia

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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Kathleen Vancleef @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · Feb 4

Ever heard of Anton's syndrome? It's a rare but strange condition. 👨‍🎓

After an injury to the back of the brain, a person can become blind but they are totally unaware that they can't see. Their brain does not realise that they can no longer see. 🧑‍🦯

youtu.be/99uIRwnga3Q?...

What is Anton syndrome?

YouTube video by Kathleen Vancleef

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