YO Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025
For members registering for the AGM only, please proceed to the registration section below.
YO WEBINAR - Paediatric Pearls: Eye Testing & Visual Perception Essentials
Join us for Paediatric Pearls: Eye Testing & Visual Perception Essentials, a practical two-part webinar designed to sharpen your skills in paediatric eye care. Presenters Sukanya Iyer and Mandy Huynh will share their top tips for effective testing, vision perception assessment, and tracking evaluation in children.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe age-appropriate approaches to vision testing in young children and identify common behavioural challenges and strategies to maintain cooperation during testing.
- Choose suitable vision assessment methods based on the child’s age and cognitive ability and demonstrate how to modify testing when children are non-verbal, pre-verbal, or uncooperative.
- Understand how to perform accurate binocular vision testing in the context of strabismus and amblyopia.
- Understand how to accurately assess ocular motilities in young children and interpret findings to detect strabismus, nerve palsies, or other motility disorders.
- Identify and conduct core visual perceptual tests for children, and recognize when vision therapy is appropriate.
- Select and administer tests for ocular motor/tracking problems and interpret results in the context of school or learning challenges.
- Develop practical, individualized recommendations for vision therapy addressing both perceptual and tracking deficits.
About Sukanya Iyer:
Suki graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2019 with a Bachelor of Vision Science and a Master of Clinical Optometry. She began her career in 2020 in Sydney’s Hills District, gaining valuable experience in a busy metropolitan setting before relocating to Canberra in 2022. After serving as Managing Optometrist for a busy corporate practice, Suki transitioned to a dual role, working alongside a local ophthalmologist at Clarity Eye Surgeons and providing full scope independent eye care at Evolve Optometry in Gungahlin.
Dedicated to delivering full-scope optometric care, Suki has developed a particular passion for paediatric eye care, binocular vision disorders, myopia management, and collaborative care for complex eye conditions. Known for her warm and thorough approach, Suki is committed to supporting the eye health of the Canberra community through evidence-based practice and patient education.
About Avery (Mandy) Huynh:
Mandy Huynh (they/she) graduated from the UNSW with a Bachelor of Vision Science and a Master of Clinical Optometry in 2019. They began their career focusing on myopia management and orthokeratology, where they developed a growing passion for paediatric care and the long-term impact they could make in children’s lives.
Mandy later expanded their expertise in behavioural/developmental optometry, deepening their interest in understanding how vision affects learning, development, and quality of life. Today, Mandy is a proud practice owner at Eye Definition Optometrists in Wolli Creek, where they work alongside Sheila Lam to bring high quality care in their respective optometric passions.
Registration
This webinar is FREE for all YO members and student members. If you have any questions that you would like to send in beforehand, please email them to us at y.optoms@gmail.com.
If you are not a member and would like to attend, you can sign up here.
For YO members: To register for the AGM and/or paediatric webinar, please click here.
7:00PM - 7:30PM: YO Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025
7:30PM - 9:30PM: YO Paediatric Webinar
2i CPD hours has been applied for this event. A certificate of attendance will be provided at the conclusion of the event.
Special thank you to CooperVision for their unwavering support of Young Optometrists for making these events happen!
