We are pleased to invite you to our next National Congress which will be held in Verona (Italy).
You can find the preliminary program and congress registration below.
Preliminary Program
Friday May 5
8.30 AM – Registration of participants
9:00 Institutional greetings
9:30-11:00 SESSION: ORTHOPTIC PREVENTION IN PEDIATRIC AGE
– Development of visual function
– The importance of prevention
– Orthoptic screening: how and when – Discussion
11:00-13:00 SESSION: STRABISMUS – Orthoptic evaluation
– Exodeviations
– Convergent strabismus – Orthoptics Syndromes – Clinical cases
– Discussion
Lunch break
14:00 -16:00 SESSION: REHABILITATION
– Orthoptic rehabilitation in strabismus
– Treatment of amblyopia: new prospectives?
– Role of the orthoptist in infantile cerebral paralysis – The role of the orthoptist in rare diseases
– Clinical cases
– Discussion
16:00-17:00 Reports on free topics 17:00-18:00 SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING
Saturday May 6
9:00-11:00 SESSION: VISUAL PATHOLOGIES IN THE ADULT
– Prevention: role of the orthoptist
– Instrumental diagnostics: posterior segment – Instrumental diagnostics: anterior segment – Blindness and low vision
– Discussion
11:30-13:00 SESSION: REHABILITATION IN THE VISUAL DISORDERS IN ADULTS
– Rehabilitative approach
– Rehabilitative aids: how to identify them to optimize the residual visual capacities
– Medico-legal checks
– The role of the orthoptist in the social sphere
– Technology to help visual problems
– Discussion
Lunch break
14:00-15:00 SESSION: LITERATURE SCIENTIFIC – The different types of studies
– Search on the net
– How to read and interpret an article of research
15:00 -16:00 SESSION: GUIDELINES E GOOD PRACTICE – National legislation on guidelines
– Good practices
16:00-17:00 GRO projects
17:00-18:00 The board meets the students
Sunday May 7
PRACTICAL COURSE: FROM EYE MOTILITY TO PRISMATIC CORRECTION
8:30-12:30 Speakers/Tutors
– Adriana Balzano – Simone Loiodice – Flora Mondelli
– Erica Scarica
https://www.internationalorthoptics.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Congress_registration_form_AIORAO.pdf