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• Glossary of terms
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  • Glossary of terms A
    • A655
    • ABI/ Acquired Brian Injury
    • Abnormality
    • Accessible information
    • Accommodation
    • Acquired
    • Acuity
    • Adaptation programme
    • Adults with Incapacity Act (Scotland)
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    • Articles for the blind labels
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    • Asthenopia / Asthenopic
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    • Attendance allowance
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    • Auditory Processing Disorder
    • Autism
    • Autistic spectrum
    • Auto refractor
    • Avastin
    • Axis
    • AZOOR
  • Glossary of terms B
    • Batten's disease
    • BD8
    • Behavioural Optometry / Behavioural Optometrists
    • Bifocal Glasses
    • Big Mack
    • Binocular vision
    • Blepharitis
    • Blind
    • Blind spot
    • Blindisms
    • Blinking
    • Blurred Vision
    • BP1
    • Braille
    • BSL
    • Bump-Ons
    • Buphthalmos
  • Glossary of terms C
    • Canal of Schlemm
    • Cardiff Acuity Cards
    • Cataract
    • Catford Drum
    • CCTV - close circuit television
    • Central Hearing Loss
    • Central Serous Retinopathy
    • Central vision
    • Cerebral or Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)
    • Cerebral palsy
    • Certificate of Visual Impairment
    • CF - counts fingers
    • Challenging behaviour
    • Charge syndrome
    • Charles Bonnet Syndrome
    • Cholesteatoma
    • Choroid
    • Ciliary Body
    • Circles of support
    • Citizen advocacy
    • Clarity of vision
    • Clinic
    • Clinical Test
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    • Colour blind
    • Colour contrast
    • Colour perception
    • Colour vision test
    • Coloured filters
    • Combination lenses
    • Communicator guides
    • Community Learning Disability Nurse (CLDN)
    • Complex needs
    • Conductive Deafness
    • Cone Cells
    • Cone dystrophy
    • Congenital
    • Conjunctiva
    • Conjunctivitis
    • Consent
    • Consultant
    • Contact lenses
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    • Contrast sensitivity
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    • Cytomegalovirus Retinitis (CMV Retinitis)
    • juvenile Batten's disease
  • Glossary of terms D
    • Deafblind
    • Dementia
    • Depth perception
    • Desensitisation
    • Detached retina
    • Deterioration
    • Diabetes type 1
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    • Diabetic Eye Screening
    • Diabetic retinopathy
    • Diagnostic stains
    • Digital hearing aids
    • Digital imaging system
    • Dilation
    • Diopter (D)
    • Diplopia
    • Disability Discrimination Act 1995
    • Dispensing
    • Dispensing optician
    • Distance and near oculomotor balance tests
    • DLA
    • Domiciliary eye test
    • Double vision
    • Down's syndrome
    • Drusen
    • Dry - ARMD
    • Dry eye
    • Dual sensory impairment
    • Dyes
  • Glossary of terms E
    • Early onset presbyacusis
    • Easy English/Easy Read
    • Eccentric Fixation / Eccentric Viewing
    • ECLO
    • Electric wheelchair guiding/mobility
    • Embossers
    • Emmetropia
    • Encephalis
    • ENT Department
    • Entropian
    • Environmental aids
    • Epilepsy
    • Equipment for blind and partially sighted people
    • Errors of refraction
    • Eustachian Tube
    • Evisceration
    • Exophthalmos
    • Exotropia
    • External Auditory Meatus
    • Extraocular muscle
    • Eye bank
    • Eye chart
    • Eye Clinic
    • Eye drops
    • Eye examination
    • Eye health check
    • Eye infections
    • Eye patch
    • Eye rubbing
    • Eye strain
    • Eye surgery
    • Eye test / SIght test
    • Eyelash
    • Eyelid
    • Eye-poking
  • Glossary of terms F
    • Feedback from the Optometrist about my eye test
    • Field of vision
    • Finger flapping
    • Floaters
    • Floor textures
    • Fluorescein ophthalmic strip
    • Focimeter
    • Focusing
    • Fonts
    • Formats
    • Fovea
    • Frame
    • Free eye tests
    • Fuch's Dystrophy
    • FVA (Functional Vision Assessment)
    • Functional Vision Assessment Pack
    • Fundoscopy
    • Fundus
    • Fungal Keratitis
  • Glossary of terms G
    • Gas permeable lenses
    • GCA (Giant Cell Arteritis)
    • German measles
    • Glare
    • Glasses
    • Glaucoma
    • Glaucoma tests
    • GOC - General Optical Council
    • GOS - General Ophthalmic Service
    • GP
    • Guide Cane
    • Guide Dogs
    • Guide help schemes
    • Guiding
  • Glossary of terms H
    • Hand Movement
    • Hand-over-hand
    • Hands-on
    • HAP / health action plan
    • Hard lenses
    • Hard of Hearing
    • Hay fever
    • HC1
    • HC5 (O)
    • Head injury
    • Health facilitation
    • Hearing Impaired
    • Hearing therapists
    • Heterotropia
    • High Myopia
    • High support needs
    • Hoople
    • Hydrops
    • Hyperactivity
    • Hyperacusis
    • Hypermetropia / Hyperopia
  • Glossary of terms I
    • Idiopathic
    • Illiterate E
    • Information for all
    • In-growing eye lashes
    • Intacs
    • Intraocular pressure measurement
    • Involuntary movements
    • Iris
    • Iritis
    • Irlen Lenses / Filters
    • Irlen syndrome
  • Glossary of terms J
    • juvenile Batten's disease
  • Glossary of terms K
    • Kay Picture Test
    • Kerasoft lenses
    • Keratitis
    • Keratoconjunctivitis
    • Keratoconus
    • Keratoglobus
    • Keratoplasty
  • Glossary of terms L
    • Land marks
    • Landolt C
    • Large print
    • LASIK
    • Laurence Moon/Biedl Bardet Syndrome
    • Lazy eye
    • Learned spatial awareness
    • Learning difficulties
    • Learning disabilities
    • Learning disability champions
    • Learning disability Mild
    • Learning disability Moderate
    • Learning disability Severe
    • Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy or Leber optic atrophy
    • Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA)
    • Legal definition of blindness
    • Lens
    • Lesch-Nyhan
    • Letter chart
    • Letter tests
    • Lid hygiene
    • Light gazing
    • Lighting
    • Lipreading
    • Lipspeaker
    • Local optical committee
    • logMAR
    • long cane
    • Long-sight
    • Loop Systems
    • Low income scheme
    • Low vision
    • Low vision aids
    • Low vision committee
    • Low vision services
    • Low vision therapists
    • Low vision training
    • Lucentis
  • Glossary of terms M
    • Macula
    • Macular degeneration
    • Maculopathy
    • Magnifiers
    • Makaton
    • Marfan Syndrome
    • MDVI
    • Memoflex frames
    • Meningitis
    • Mental handicap
    • Microphthalmos
    • Minification
    • Mixed Loss
    • MLD
    • Mobility
    • Mobility component
    • Mobility training
    • Moderate Hearing Loss
    • Monocular vision
    • Monoculars
    • Moon
    • Multi-sensory impairment
    • Mydriasis
    • Myopia or short sight
  • Glossary of terms N
    • Nasal quadrant loss
    • National Artificial Eye Service
    • Near Acuity
    • Near Point of Convergence
    • Near vision tests
    • Near, middle and distance
    • NHS eye tests
    • NHS glasses
    • NICE
    • Night Blindness
    • No Perception of Light / NPL
    • Non-mydriatic camera
    • Non-verbal Communication
    • Normal vision
    • Nose pads
    • Nystagmus
  • Glossary of terms O
    • Objects of reference
    • Occlusion
    • Ocular Allergy
    • Ocular history
    • Ocular Motility
    • Oculomotor balance
    • One dimensional vision
    • Ophthalmic history
    • Ophthalmologists/ophthalmic surgeons
    • Ophthalmoscope
    • Optic atrophy
    • Optic Chiasma
    • Optic Nerve
    • Optic nerve hypoplasia
    • Optic neuritis
    • Optician
    • Optometrist
    • Orbital Prosthesis Department
    • Orientation
    • Orthoptists
    • Overlays
  • Glossary of terms P
    • PALS
    • PALS 2
    • Paper weights
    • Papilloedema
    • Partially sighted
    • Patch
    • Patching/patching programme
    • Patchy vision
    • Perceptual difficulties
    • Perimetry
    • Peripheral Vision
    • Peripheral visual field
    • Pink eye
    • Pinna
    • PMLD
    • PMLD champions
    • PMLD Network
    • Positioning
    • POVA
    • Preferential Looking Tests
    • Presbycusis
    • Presbyopia
    • Prescribing
    • Prescriptions
    • Pressure
    • Print size
    • Prism
    • PRK (photorefractive keratectomy)
    • Profound and multiple learning disabilities
    • Prognosis
    • Progressive
    • Progressive Addition Lenses
    • Prosthesis
    • Ptosis
    • Pupil
    • Pupil reflexes
    • Pupillary Distance (PD)
  • Glossary of terms R
    • Rate of reading
    • Reasonable Adjustment
    • Refract
    • Refraction
    • Refractive Error
    • Refractive surgery
    • Registration as blind or partially sighted
    • Rehabilitation workers for visually impaired people / ROVI
    • Retina
    • Retinal Detachment
    • Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)
    • Retinoblastoma
    • Retinopathy of prematurity
    • Retinoscopy / Retinoscope
    • Retrolental Fibroplasia
    • Retts Syndrome
    • Rod
    • ROVI
    • ROVI training
    • Rubella syndrome
  • Glossary of terms S
    • Saccadic eye movements
    • Saline solution
    • SALTs / Speech Therapist
    • Sclera
    • Sclera lenses
    • scotoma
    • Screen-reading software
    • Section 7
    • See it right
    • Sensory impairment
    • Sensory neural loss
    • Severely sight impaired
    • Shell
    • Sheridan Gardner
    • Short-sight
    • Sickle Cell Disease / Sickle Cell Anaemia
    • Side arms
    • Sight impaired
    • Sight test / Eye test
    • Sighted guide
    • Sign language
    • Signing system
    • Simulation spectacles
    • SLD
    • Slit lamp
    • Snellen Chart
    • Social workers
    • Soft lenses
    • Spartan/block
    • Spartan/block 2
    • Specific learning difficulties
    • Specs4Us
    • Spectacles
    • Speech Discrimination
    • Speech packs
    • Sphere
    • Spring-sides
    • SSE
    • Stereopsis
    • Stereotypical behaviour
    • Strabismus / squint
    • Stroke
    • Styes
    • Subjective
    • Sun glasses
    • Symbol cane
    • symbols
  • Glossary of terms T
    • Tactile clues
    • Tactile defensive
    • Tactile markers
    • Tay Sachs Disease
    • Teller/Keeler Preferential Looking
    • Telling the Optometrist About Me
    • Test frame
    • Three-dimensional vision
    • Thyroid eye disease
    • Tinnitus
    • Tinted lenses
    • Tonometry
    • Total blindness
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Trabecular Meshwork
    • Trachoma
    • Trailing
    • Transition
    • Trial frame
    • Trial lenses
    • Tunnel vision
  • Glossary of terms U
    • UK vision strategy
    • Unaided
    • Undilated eye
    • Usher syndrome
    • Uvea / Uveal Tract
    • Uveitis
  • Glossary of terms V
    • Valuing Vision Conference
    • Varifocals
    • VI standards - England
    • Vibrating Alarm Clock
    • VILD team
    • Vision
    • Vision 2020
    • Vision screening
    • Visual acuity
    • Visual acuity (level of vision)
    • Visual behaviour
    • Visual clutter
    • Visual Field
    • Visual hallucinations
    • Visual memory
    • Visual Pathway
    • Visual Pathway 2
    • Visually impaired
    • Vitreous deteachment
    • Vitreous Humour
    • Voucher
  • Glossary of terms W
    • Wet - AMD
    • Wheelchair guiding
    • Wrap-around glasses
  • Glossary of terms Z
    • Zoom text
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