YO Webinar – Paediatric Pearls: Eye Testing & Visual Perception Essentials

YO Webinar - Paediatric Pearls: Eye Testing & Visual Perception Essentials

Date: 28/10/2025 ()

Venue: Online, AUSTRALIA

Provider: Young Optometrists

Contact: Young Optometrists, [E] y.optoms@gmail.com, [P] 0424401858

Activity Outline

Join us for Paediatric Pearls: Eye Testing & Visual Perception Essentials, a practical two-part webinar designed to sharpen your skills in paediatric eye care. Presenters Sukanya Iyer and Mandy Huynh will share their top tips for effective testing, vision perception assessment, and tracking evaluation in children.

For more information, please visit https://www.yoptoms.com/event-6370129

Learning Objectives

• Describe age-appropriate approaches to vision testing in young children and identify common behavioural challenges and strategies to maintain cooperation during testing
• Choose suitable vision assessment methods based on the child’s age and cognitive ability and demonstrate how to modify testing when children are non-verbal, pre-verbal, or uncooperative
• ⁠Understand how to perform accurate binocular vision testing in the context of strabismus and amblyopia
• Understand how to accurately assess ocular motilities in young children and interpret findings to detect strabismus, nerve palsies, or other motility disorders
• Identify and conduct core visual perceptual tests for children and recognize when vision therapy is appropriate
• Select and administer tests for ocular motor/tracking problems and interpret results in the context of school or learning challenges
• Develop practical, individualized recommendations for vision therapy addressing both perceptual and tracking deficits

Max CPD hours awarded: 2

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