Program Coordinator: Sue Silveira and Sonja Vrugt 

Projects: 

• IOA Code fo Ethics Document
• IOA Comptency Document

Committees:

• Low Vision / Chair Sara Bettega, Andrea Jerabková
• Vision Screening / Chair Isabel Reich-d'Almeida

Priorities and Directions 

• Establish the currency of minimum competencies for orthoptic practice.
   
• Produce the philosophical framework for international orthoptic practice by establishing an ethical code.
   
• Promote competent, ethical practice that is sensitive to local cultural contexts.
   
• Ensure that mechanisms to guide and support the establishment, development and approval of constitutions of new orthoptic associations are in place.