Children in the intensive-screening group received age-appropriate visual testing and assessment by an orthoptist at eight, 12, 18, 25, 31, and 37 months of age. |
Andrew previously worked as an orthoptist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital before returning to university to study optometry. |
Opticians get much more practice in spotting squints but the end result is usually much the same, a referral to a hospital-based orthoptist. |
Amblyopia is treated by an eye specialist and an orthoptist. |
She was raised in Belfast and educated at St Andrews, Scotland, before training as an orthoptist in Oxford. |
In the future, the government plans that a sight test should be given by an orthoptist between the ages of 4 and 5 years. |