The College provides the latest news, research, advice and guidance on examining children, and all the key optical topics. The College actively campaigns on improving Children’s eye health across the UK.
All children to have a full sight test before they start school, between the ages of three and four.
We are calling on national health and care service providers to:
We are asking all optometrists, dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and other optical professionals who work with children to:
Don't know that school vision screening are not the same as full sight tests
Don’t consider children’s sight tests as very important health checks
Feel it’s only necessary to take children for sight tests if issues are flagged
The College of Optometrists, Association of British Dispensing Opticians and the OSA partner in new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of children’s eye tests and better signposting for parents to children’s eye care professionals on the High Street.
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.
ABDO, Boots Opticians, the College and Specsavers have all come together to deliver a public awareness campaign on the importance of children receiving a full sight test before they start school, around three to four years old.
Clinical files: Is a 6-year-old child too young for contact lenses?
The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.
This hands-on workshop will consider the main facial differences between adults and children and how this should be reflected in the choice of frame that is dispensed.
This session explores the potential resultant effect of a poor fitting frame and the relationship between the frame parameters and facial measurements.
The NICER study has led to the creation of a new digital health app, which helps predict the likelihood of myopia.
For the very last issue of Optometry in Practice, Professor Jonathan Jackson MCOptom reflects on the past two decades of the journal and its contribution to our learning.
This paper provides a practical overview of the causes and impact of cerebral visual impairment (CVI), how it is diagnosed and telltale signs and symptoms.
We have responded to the Home Office call for evidence on mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse.
Eye health issues that are making the news.
The College’s Clinical Editor, Jane Veys MCOptom, on embracing the advantages of both digital and analogue
A lack of experience can put some optometrists off examining young children’s eyes. Anna Scott asks: how can they feel empowered and confident?
In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.