UNSW Handbook Course - Optometry 4A

Optometry 4A - OPTM4110


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Optometry and Vision Science
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisites: OPTM3211, OPTM3231, VISN3211; Corequisites: OPTM4131, OPTM4151, OPTM4170
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: (more info)

Description

Note: This course is not offered in 2006. It will be offered from 2009.

Objectives: To build on OPTM3211 and to advance student knowledge and stimulate interest in children's vision, vision therapy, and low vision.

Brief Curriculum: Children's vision: history taking, the development of the child and vision; Vision therapy: vision and posture, behavioural optometry, learning difficulties, special needs, child abuse; Low vision: epidemiology, adaptation to loss, the low vision assessment, magnification, optical low vision aids, non-optical low vision aids, adaptive technology, multi-disciplinary models, international issues.

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