Optometry 4A - OPTM4110

   
   
   
 
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
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Note: This course is not yet offered. 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.