Orthoptists

Key skills

A typical day

• •Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
• •Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
• •Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
• •Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
• •Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.

Fields of study

Any field