The module provides advanced and specialized theoretical background knowledge and practical skills for pediatric visual problems and their management. It has a particular emphasis on the need for eye examinations for children and how the practitioner can ensure child-friendly testing procedures and hence a successful examination. The course also considers binocular vision anomalies and specific learning difficulties, as well as the role of the optometrist in managing children with these conditions and detecting visual problems at early age by conducting vision screening programs in pre-school children. This module aims to provide the students with the knowledge and skills needed to deal with a peadiatric patient, examine his/her vision, diagnose and treat the condition with the optimum optical correction or referral when needed.
