Practice team webinar: Meeting the eye care needs of children with special needs
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Where: Online webinar
Interactive CPD points: 0.5
This four-part webinar series, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Vision, is designed with practitioners and the wider practice team in mind. Find out more about the next practice team webinars below.
- Practice team webinar one: Meeting the eye care needs of children with special needs – Book now below
- Practice team webinar two: Sustainability in the optical industry – 28 June 2022
- Practice team webinar three: Why myopia matters – 5 July 2022
- Practice team webinar four: Perfecting your communication with potential contact lens wearers – 12 July 2022
Practice team webinar one - Meeting the eye care needs of children with special needs
The session will provide an overview of the high incidence of visual problems in children with special needs and tips to make the practice more accessible from a SeeAbility eye care champion with lived experience of learning disability.
CPD
- This webinar is approved for 0.5 interactive CPD points
- To be eligible for the CPD points you need to attend for the duration of the session
Technical requirements
- The webinar will take place using Zoom
- We recommend that you use a computer or tablet device to join this webinar
7.00PM - 7.45PM
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0.5 points
Meeting the eye care needs of children with special needs
CPD ref no: C-102770
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Malvi Patel
Malvi is an optometrist and clinical lead for SeeAbility, a charity that campaigns for better eye care for people with learning disabilities. The charity currently provides a special school eye care service to 24 special schools over 33 sites in the South East of England and one of Malvi’s roles is to support the optometrists and dispensing opticians working with SeeAbility to deliver the best possible eye care to these children. Before working for SeeAbility, Malvi spent the majority of her professional career working in the domiciliary sector and also has experience of working in independent practice.
Joanne Kennedy
Joanne has been a SeeAbility eye care champion for three years. She has been an active advocate for people with learning disabilities for many years, sharing her own lived experience of learning disability. In her role at SeeAbility, Joanne works to encourage people with learning disabilities to access eye care and to promote good eye care for people with learning disabilities to optical practices, optometrists and dispensing opticians.
CPD points: 0.5
Learning outcome
- Practitioners will be updated on how to make eye care provision more accessible for children with special needs
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