June 1 - WOD - World orthoptic Day - AIOrAO

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"Knowing helps prevent eye health and promotes healthy growth of the citizens of the future."

June 1, 2015 is the day wanted by the International Orthoptics Association (IOA) to celebrate the World Day of Orthoptics (orthoptic World Day).

A day dedicated to the prevention, awareness and information, to help citizens to act in advance, preventing major eye diseases in adults (such as glaucoma, retinopathy, maculopathy) and children (such as 'amblyopia).

Fantini Club, free visual screening for children and adults with the strategy to prevent early, and if you need to design a custom process following visual rehabilitation.

Numerous events around the world, the slogan will be: "Orthoptists providing a clear vision for the future of eye health."

WOD wants to be - through the eyes of professionals, "artists of rehabilitation" - a springboard for a
better understanding of the "values" related to the welfare of the eyes.
An opportunity to increase the visibility of the profession orthoptist Assistant in Ophthalmology, the professional who, holding a degree qualification and prescribed by a doctor, is the sensory and motor disorders of vision and makes the techniques of instrumental semeiology-ophthalmology.

The project carried out in Italy by AIOrAO (Italian Association Orthoptists assistants in ophthalmology) has
program to highlight that "what we do" and "why we do it", through:
- Raise awareness of visual prevention
- Information through moments of direct contact with small & large citizens with the distribution of information materials.

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