title: The special educator and the optometrist.
abstract: This article is meant to give optometrists practical suggestions about how to better communicate their specialized knowledge to teachers. The optometrist has a wealth of information that can be not only useful to the teachers, but also extremely beneficial to the students. As team members, the optometrist and teacher share and exchange professional information. The teacher gains an understanding of how the student's vision loss affects learning while the optometrist gains an insight about the child's educational programming.
mesh_terms: D004519:Education, Special; D009907:Optometry / Q000379:methods; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010819:Physician's Role