Current practitioner-reported attitudes and behaviours relating to contact lens use among children and young people in the UK.

This article aims to acquaint reluctant practitioners with the theoretical knowledge they need to examine children aged 6 years or less.

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.