World Optometry Day is a day that celebrates optometrists and their contributions to vision care and eye health around the world.
It is not a day I will celebrate in the library, but I am surprised by the number of students I teach who do wear spectacles, far more than when I first started teaching, so it strikes me that parents and teachers today are more conscious of eye care. My sister who works in eye health would say that too, but she does despair at the number of parents who want help for their children, but who are reluctant to encourage their children to do the exercises or safeguards that the health professional suggests 'because they don't like it'. Intervention then takes a lot longer than planned.
I have written about World Sight Day before and listed book resources that would support reading on the topic of sight. Here are three to use for this specific day;
The Eyes by Lorna Hendry
Maisy Goes to the Eye Doctor by Lucy Cousins
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