Mathury Sooriyakumaran evaluate the effectiveness of home-based convergence exercises against office-based vision therapy or placebo treatment. This is an edited version of the 2021 City University/Optician Best Dissertation prize-winner (C106042, suitable for logging as one distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

In the third of a four part series looking at an important cause of visual impairment in children, Cirta Tooth outlines how CVI affects children’s development (C106451 suitable for logging as one distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Dr Manbir Nagra and Dr Natalia Vlasak assess the role that lifestyle plays in the incidence of myopia (C106440, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

The third in the series of online education events was delivered by Dr Sònia Travé Huarte. The focus of this webinar was to discuss dry eye and ocular health and how assessments can be implemented seamlessly into the normal routine to help practitioners diagnose and manage dry eye disease. (C106327, suitable for one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

In the last of two articles looking at retinoblastoma, final year PhD student Nicola O’Donnell looks at how the disease affects the mental wellbeing of young survivors (C106367, suitable for one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

In the second of a four part series looking at an important cause of visual impairment in children, Cirta Tooth outlines how to diagnose cerebral visual impairment (C106270 suitable for logging as one distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

The ninth in a series of articles summarising the key findings of the BCLA CLEAR publication, a major review of the published evidence relating to all aspects of contact lens practice, Dr Alex Hui offers an overview of the BCLA CLEAR section relating to the contact lens technologies of the future. (C106120 suitable for one distance learning CPD point for optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians)

Richard Edwards discusses the legal implications surrounding myopia management, whether undertaken or not. (C106069, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

Peter Black and Tina Arbon Black refresh our memories about the spectacle correction of myopia and bring us up to date with the latest developments in myopia management lens designs
(C106065, suitable for logging as one provider-led distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)

In the first of two articles looking at retinoblastoma, consultant paediatric ophthalmologist Mr Joe Abbott offers an overview of the disease (C106043, suitable for logging as one distance learning CPD point for optometrists and dispensing opticians)