Specialties
A full-scope practice of optometry serves patients with many different needs. Whether you have a comprehensive primary care practice, or are highly specialized, doctors of optometry will appreciate the contact lenses, sports and performance, vision rehabilitation, and vision therapy tools and resources developed by volunteers and staff.
Specialty services
Specialty services like contact lenses, sports and performance vision, vision rehabilitation, and vision therapy can be a part of any optometry practice. Volunteers from the Contact Lens and Cornea Section (CLCS), Sports and Performance Vision Committee, Vision Rehabilitation Committee, and Vision Therapy Task Force have developed resources for doctors of optometry of all types.
For doctors of optometry with a comprehensive primary care practice, CLCS resources can help doctors to maximize their contact lens practice and consider the full range of anterior segment options for their patients. Those same doctors might appreciate guidance on ways to help their patients understand how optometric care can improve their performance in sports and optimize functional vision. Vision rehabilitation resources help doctors to offer options to their low vision patients. Highly specialized doctors of optometry can find resources and news at the cutting edge of their interest area, and ways to connect with their passionate colleagues.
Join the Sports & Performance Vision Advocacy Network
Join the Vision Rehabilitation Advocacy Network
Congratulations to the AOA’s 2024 award winners
The winners will be honored at a ceremony during Optometry’s Meeting® 2024.
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Genetic testing and counseling are critical for patients with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). A new AOA resource offers insights into the role doctors of optometry play in considering genetic testing for IRDs, including providing in-office testing or referring to offices that do.
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