Read the Guidance for Professional Practice on examining younger children
Read the Guidance for Professional Practice.
Find out more about getting a higher qualification in Paediatric eye care.
Read our ethical scenarios and decide what you would do in these situations.
New research shows that only 30% of kids always wear sunglasses on sunny days and more than a third of parents believe a hat or cap offers the same protection as sunglasses.
Jane Veys MCOptom on acronym ambivalence
Clinical files: Is a 6-year-old child too young for contact lenses?
The College's position on the use of Chloramphenicol POM in paediatric populations.
Contact lens practitioners need to be able to fit the appropriate lens type for each condition.
This article provides practical advice for optometrists and other eye care professionals managing paediatric patients.
Articles cover: Modifiable risk factors for AMD; Medical management of common corneal conditions; testing visual acuity of young children; lasers; the purpose of an eye test among people aged 60 and over.
Children with refractive problems should be offered an alternative one-stop and easy-access community service, tailored to local needs and with set standards of care and expected outcomes.
How young is too young for contact lenses?
Articles in this edition of OiP cover angle closure glaucoma in optometric practice, colour vision testing, children and contact lenses, and hereditary ocular diseases in childhood.
A look at some hereditary childhood ocular diseases that may be encountered in optometric practice, including anterior-segment disorders.
Articles covering: Genetics in ophthalmology and its relevance to optometry, dealing with challenging situations in practice, gonioscopy and hereditary ocular diseases in childhood.
Highlighting some of the hereditary diseases encountered in children with visual loss.
This review outlines current estimates of myopia prevalence for children, the characteristics of myopia progression and attempts to retard its progression with a variety of treatment therapies.
This OiP article looks at fitting contact lenses to treat children with a variety of conditions.
This article aims to prepare the optometrist for the ocular and refractive problems associated with premature birth.