June 1 - 5 is Orthoptics Awareness Week. It is a week to celebrate the orthoptics profession and to raise awareness of the orthoptics profession not only in Australia but worldwide. This year the theme for OAW is Children’s vision – Seeing the future.
It might just be that I’m not super bright but it took me a good few years to work out what an orthoptist was – despite having seen one quite regularly for Dane’s eye checkups from six months of age. Although he would go in and be assessed by a lovely man at each appointment, I was so caught up in the stress of the appointments that I never took the time to investigate who this individual was and what his role was. I just thought he was another ophthalmologist!
Turns out though, he was an orthoptist.