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.
As we leave summer behind and head towards winter, growing demands on the NHS will no doubt fill news headlines.
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.
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.
Incomitance in cases of binocular vision defects can be a sign of disease or injury. Sophie Goodchild reminds us of the essentials.
Kieran Loft on his last stint at Acuity, and other changes in optometry.
Amblyopia is a binocular disorder but all too often it is treated monocularly. Becky McCall asks if video game play offers a new way forward.