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Vision Screening Training
There will be a one day training session for Aboriginal vision screeners on March 26, 2010 in Smithers, BC. Space is limited, register today! For more information please click here.
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Preschool and Kindergarten Vision Screening Training Manual
The vision screening training manual has been developed to provide Aboriginal vision screeners with the skills needed to screen preschool children in order to identify eye conditions such as strabismus (turned eye), amblyopia (lazy eye), and refractive error (decreased vision). This is the first phase of a broader, provincial vision screening training manual and teaches the lay screener basic knowledge about the various levels of eye specialties, describes the anatomy of the eye, discusses vision irregularities and how to read a prescription, and provides a basic introduction to screening tools that will be studied in greater detail in the provincial vision screening training manual. This manual can be used as a standardized approach to training Aboriginal screeners who are new to this field.
To download the manual click here.
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Vision Screening Train-the-Trainer
The Aboriginal Preschool Vision Screening program will be co-hosting a vision screening train-the-trainer event with the First Nations Health Council at the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society's 12th Annual Provincial Training conference Nov 19-21 at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown. To find out more about the event or to register for the training click here
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