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The Young Eye: Assessment of Vision, Part 1 - Birth to 12 months (Non-interactive)

CPD Ref: C-104215

CPD Points: 

CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 30 September 2025

Domains: Clinical practice, Communication


This is the first instalment of a three-part course focused on assessing vision from birth to 18 years. Part one highlights the importance of taking a thorough history and understanding symptoms when assessing children’s vision and examines how to choose the most appropriate  techniques for assessing 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.

Category: CPD courses
The Young Eye: Assessment of Vision, Part 2 - Twelve months to five years (Interactive)

CPD Ref: C-104470

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CPD Type: 

Closing Date: 30 September 2025

Domains: Clinical practice, Communication


This is the second instalment of a three-part course focused on assessing vision from birth to 18 years. Part two explores how examination approaches can be adapted as children progress through toddlerhood and the pre-school years. It covers the significance of using age-appropriate communication styles and offers guidance on selecting the most suitable tests and techniques for each individual 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.

Category: CPD courses
The Young Eye: Assessment of Vision, Part 3 - Primary and secondary school-age children (Non-interactive)

CPD Ref: C-104592

CPD Points: 

CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 30 September 2025

Domains: Clinical practice, Professionalism


This is the third instalment of a three-part course focused on assessing vision from birth to 18 years. Part three examines how to choose the most appropriate tests, equipment and techniques for vision in school-age children. It also highlights the 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.

Category: CPD courses
The Young Eye: Development of Vision, Part 1 - Birth to three years (Non-interactive) (Updated 2025)

CPD Ref: C-112087

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CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 31 December 2025

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.

Category: CPD courses
The Young Eye: Development of Vision, Part 2 - Three to 18 years (Non-interactive)

CPD Ref: C-109302

CPD Points: 

CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 31 December 2025

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.

Category: CPD courses
The Young Eye: Embryology, Part 1 - Genetics and first trimester

No CPD Points

Domains: Clinical practice


The first of two programmes discussing embryology and the developing eye, this course looks at genetics and inheritance of a range of eye diseases, as well as the first three months of gestation and how external and internal influence may trigger eye conditions.

Topics: Choroid, Ciliary body, Coloboma, Colour vision defect, Congenital, Rubella, Cataract, Lens, DNA, Dominant, Embryo, Epithelium, Genetics, Glaucoma, Hyaloid artery, Inheritance, Iris, Meiosis, Mitochondrial, Multifactorial, Mutation, Myopia, RNA, Recessive, Retinoblastoma, Sclera, Toxoplasmosis, X-linked, Y-shaped suture, Zika virus, Young eye series.

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The Young Eye: Embryology, Part 2 - Second trimester to birth

No CPD Points

Domains: Clinical practice, Communication


The second of two programmes discussing embryology and the developing eye, this course looks at the final six months of gestation, the birth process and the early period post-partum, and how external and internal influence may trigger eye diseases.

Topics: Binocularity, Asphyxia, Children, Congenital, Glaucoma, Cranial nerves, Down syndrome, Duane syndrome, Emmetropisation, Extraocular muscles, Fibrosis, Foetal alcohol syndrome, Gestational diabetes, Horner’s syndrome, Hydrocephalus, Keratoconus, Leukocoria, Oculomotor disorders, Ophthalmoplegia, Pupil, Reflex test, Retinal detachment, Retinopathy of prematurity, Risk factors, Sixth nerve palsy, Smoking, Spina bifida, Stereopsis, Trisomy 21, UV, Visual development, Vitamin A deficiency, Young eye series.

Category: Video library