CPD Ref: C-107864
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CPD Type: Non-interactive
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Domains: Clinical practice, Communication
In this episode, we hear from the assistant headteacher and sensory impairment lead of a SEN primary school about the impact of visual dysfunction on SEN children. Michelle then speaks to Professor Rachel Pilling, delving into the potentially daunting task of carrying out an eye examination on children with SEN and providing valuable hints, tips and resources to better equip optometrists and lay the foundations to lifelong eyecare for SEN children.
Topics: SEN, Special educational needs, Paediatric eyecare, Eye examinations, Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI).
CPD Ref: C-108198
CPD Points: 
CPD Type: Non-interactive
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Domains: Clinical practice, Communication, Specialty CPD (IP)
In this episode, presenter Michelle Hanratty and Dr Peter Frampton discuss the ocular allergic responses commonly seen in optometric practice and explore their treatment using therapeutic agents. We also hear from a patient who suffered from interstitial keratitis, highlighting how the successful therapeutic management of this case is connected to the immunological response.
Topics: Immunology, Allergic eye disease, Herpes zoster, Independent prescribing.
CPD Ref: C-104215
CPD Points: 
CPD Type: Non-interactive
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Domains: Clinical practice, Communication
This is the first of a three-part course discussing the assessment of vision from birth to 18 years. Part one explores the importance of history and symptom taking when assessing children’s vision and discusses how to choose the most appropriate techniques when examining infants up to the age of 12 months.
Topics: History and symptoms, Preferential looking, Cover test, Stereopsis, Emmetropisation, Mohindra retinoscopy, Cycloplegic refraction, Binocular vision, Communication skills, Ocular health assessment, 20D lens, Young eye series.
CPD Ref: C-104470
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Domains: Clinical practice, Communication
This is the second of a three-part course discussing the assessment of vision from birth to 18 years. Part two explores how the approach to examining children can be adapted as they move through toddlerhood and the pre-school years. The importance of different communication styles is discussed, alongside how to choose the most appropriate tests and techniques for each child.
Topics: Communication, Preferential looking, Crowded picture and letter acuity tests, Stereopsis, Binocular vision, Static retinoscopy, Mohindra retinoscopy, Cycloplegic retinoscopy, Dynamic retinoscopy, Prescribing, Young eye series.
CPD Ref: C-104592
CPD Points: 
CPD Type: Non-interactive
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Domains: Clinical practice, Professionalism
This is the third of a three-part course discussing the assessment of vision from birth to 18 years. We hear from our expert optometrist what tests, equipment and techniques are useful in assessing vision in school-age children. They also discuss considerations around safeguarding, confidentiality and consent.
Topics: Communication, Dynamic retinoscopy, Slit-lamp examination, Colour vision testing, Unexpected results, Gillick competence, Confidentiality, Consent, Safeguarding, Young eye series.
CPD Ref: C-100516
CPD Points: 
CPD Type: Non-interactive
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Domains: Clinical practice, Communication
The first of two programmes discussing the development of vision from birth to 18 years, part one looks in detail at age-related visual norms and what changes occur from birth to age three, highlighting what early abnormalities can impair visual ability.
Topics: Anatomical changes to the visual system, Development of VA, Contrast perception, Colour perceptions, Accommodative systems, Binocular systems, Ocular and neurodevelopmental abnormalities arising from forceps delivery or prematurity, Synaptogenesis, Emmetropisation, Infantile esotropia, Retinoblastoma, Physical development milestones, Young eye series.
CPD Ref: C-100518
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Domains: Clinical practice, Communication
The second of two programmes discussing the development of vision from birth to 18 years, part two looks in detail at what visual changes occur from the age of three up to adulthood, looking at age-related visual norms and developmental milestones as Zara grows up.
Topics: Emmetropisation, School vision screening, Myelination, Synaptic pruning, Development of amblyopia, Visual processing issues, Scholastic visual demands, Exotropia, Global motion, Biological motion, Contour integration, Development of colour vision, Visual conversion disorder, Young eye series.