The Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists (ACBO) has announced a provisional schedule of education workshops for 2021.
The events will be dependent on minimum registrant numbers, as well as community health and travel circumstances and ACBO has said that if necessary, it will refund registrations up to 24 hours before the course or workshop on a case by case basis.
The Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists (ACBO) has announced a provisional schedule of education workshops for 2021
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The courses are as follows:
OEP VT1 for Visual Dysfunctions
17 – 21 February, 2021
Burleigh Mowbray Surf Life Saving Club, Cnr Goodwin Tce and Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, QLD (Airport Coolangatta)
VT1 teaches a core curriculum of therapy which consists of a series of procedures, which are not necessarily specific to any one dysfunction but which together lead to successful, happy and enthusiastic patients. This course is great way to properly prepare you for providing clinic based vision therapy.
Practical Vision Therapy – Workshop 1 – Australia
27 – 28 February, 2021
The home practice of Bev Roberts in the northern Brisbane (QLD) suburb of Lawnton, airport Brisbane
The Practical Vision Therapy program has been developed to meet the needs of Optometrists and Therapists as they look to diversify and meet the needs of more patients by providing gold-standard office-based vision therapy. The program gives Therapists relevant theory and provides an understanding of the development of vision problems and options for management. This is balanced with a strong practical experience, which focuses on delivering therapy techniques to maximise results
Practical Vision Therapy – Workshop 1 – New Zealand
6 – 7 March, 2021
Auckland, New Zealand
OEP VT2 for Learning Related Visual Problems
28 April – 2 May, 2021
Burleigh Mowbray Surf Life Saving Club, Cnr Goodwin Tce and Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast, QLD (Airport Coolangatta)
VT for Learning Related Visual Problems adds to the core VT for Visual Dysfunctions (VT I) course all the necessary testing and therapy activities to successfully diagnose and treat patients with learning related visual problems as well as patients with developmental difficulties. Participants must have completed OEP VT1 for Visual Dysfunctions.
Practical Vision Therapy – Workshop 2 – New Zealand
8 – 9 May, 2021
Auckland, New Zealand
Accommodation and Convergence is a part of a multi-level practical vision therapy program covering: accommodation/convergence, refractive conditions, tests and overview of diagnoses, treatment of A/C disorders.
Register here if you completed have Workshop 1 or plan to complete it this year.
ACBO Online Seminars 2021
ACBO will commence a regular series of inexpensive online seminars on 16 February. The seminars will feature noted Australian speakers presenting intensive education on aspects of behavioural optometry.
The first will feature complex aspects of two cases presented by ACBO President Evan Brown, and Executive Director Steve Leslie, with the opportunity to ask questions and discuss different approaches to care.
Find more details about the ACBO online series here.
Other Events
NACBO 2021
The dates for NACBO 2021 will be confirmed in early February following the ACBO Board online meeting, and are tentatively scheduled for 8-9 July at the QT hotel on the Gold Coast.
ICBO
In the US it is currently predicted it will take two years to control the virus issue. This has had a huge impact on the North American events industry, and the demand for social distancing and self-isolation has meant bringing large groups of people together is not viable now or in the foreseeable future.
As a result the OEPF Board and the International Conference of Behavioural Optometry (ICBO) host organisation for the next ICBO, Vision Therapy Canada (VTC), have jointly decided to postpone ICBO 2022 in Ottawa Canada.
Syntonics Education
The Australian College of Syntonics (ACS) has been working hard to help advance the knowledge of Syntonics and research to support its efficacy as a viable tool for optometrists to use in their practice. ACS has released its education schedule for 2021, for more information and the events please click here.
