About this page
Learning is a life-long exercise
Cirta Tooth enjoys developing her knowledge and skills through a mixture of learning opportunities, including lectures and conferences, peer-group discussions, one-on-one tuition and mentorship, networking within the sight loss sector, researching and preparing teaching material for others. Are you keen to do the same?
Sharing knowledge
Cirta Tooth is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience with other professionals to empower them to improve their patient care in her specialist areas. The publication section on this website contains educational articles about a range of topics, related to low vision and cerebral vision impairment. This section provides further education opportunities for professionals, practice teams and anyone wanting to learn more about sight impairment and/or cerebral vision impairment.
Teaching style
Cirta Tooth tailors her teaching style to the learning goals and educational setting of her audience. She promotes active engagement of her students by offering interactive elements and opportunities to ask questions, whether this is one-on-one teaching or larger audiences.
Feedback
Cirta Tooth actively seeks feedback from her students to develop and plan future educational events
On this page
In the first section, you can find the courses that are currently running and for which you can sign up.
Further down this page you can find additional ideas about target audiences, topics and teaching formats and settings.
You can contact Cirta Tooth to discuss teaching opportunities tailored to your learning goals.
Current and upcoming Courses
CPD certificates for self-directed learning are available on request after completion of a course.
If you want more information, sign up, or discuss fees or adaptations to the courses to tailor your own learning goals or settings, please contact Cirta Tooth:
Sight Impairment certification and registration
This workshop is suitable for Scotland-based eye care professionals and practice staff who want to understand the process of certification and registration, the eligibility criteria, and the benefits for patients of being certified. The course is open for anyone in the UK, but the focus is on the Scottish system.
CPD certificate available on completion
(1 self-directed CPD point)
Online
In-person (depending on location)
Fees
Course fee: £150 (online), for up to 8 delegates
Additional fee for larger groups
Additional fee for in-person event
CVI Training for starters
This workshop is for UK-based eye care, health care and educational professionals or practice teams who are keen to get involved in screening children for CVI. The course gives an introduction on what CVI is, who might be affected, and how you can get involved in screening for patients interested in an online CVI assessment with Cirta Tooth.
CPD certificate available on completion
(1 self-directed CPD point)
Online
In-person (depending on location)
Fees
Course fee: £150 (online), for up to 8 delegates
Additional fee for larger groups
Additional fee for in-person event
Watch this short video if you want to know more (1min 48sec)
Target Audience
Education is available for anyone who is interested to learn more about low vision or cerebral vision impairment. Some examples of people who might be interested to learn more are listed here:
Topics
Cirta Tooth offers educational sessions, tailored to your educational goals on a range of topics related to low vision and CVI. Some of the topics are listed below. This is not an exhaustive list and more topics will be added over time.
Alternatively, you can read about some of the topics in Cirta's blogs or in her publications
Low Vision
Cirta Tooth has developed her knowledge of Low Vision through her clinical experience, her projects during her undergraduate and post-graduate courses, through attending courses and conferences and, most importantly, from listening to her patients!
Introduction to Low Vision
Cirta Tooth has introduced many people to the concept of low vision: How it can be defined, who is affected and how patients can be supported. She has given presentations to patient groups (eg the local support groups from the macular society) and eye care professionals. She has provided clinic-based teaching to optometrists, ophthalmologists, general doctors, orthoptists and dispensing opticians. She has organised workshops for children in primary schools and she has provided individual tuition.
Certification and registration
Are you keen to understand the benefits of certification for sight impairment? Do you need to brush up on certification criteria or on the process of certification and registration? Cirta Tooth has given workshops with case discussions for ophthalmologists and for optical practices.
"Very engaging and informative"
"Good detailed explanations"
Emotional impact of sight impairment
Cirta Tooth has interviewed patients from the Macular Society to better understand the emotional impact of sight loss. She subsequently published 3 case stories in the Optician Magazine (see 'Publications' section on this website) and organised teaching sessions for optical professionals.
"Great to learn about the help and support that is available for the emotional aspect of low vision"
Brighter, bolder, bigger
Simple adaptations to the home, school and work environment can significantly impact everyday function for a person with a vision impairment.
Cerebral Vision Impairment (CVI)
Cirta Tooth created an information video ("Formal Lecture") about CVI for educational and eye care professionals as part of her Masters project. It was very well received and triggered an interest in some of her immediate colleagues to learn more about the topic and engage more with this important topic.
Childhood CVI
Workshops, presentations, individual teaching sessions and teaching on the job are good ways to learn more about CVI. Cirta Tooth has had many opportunities to raise awareness of this condition.
Dementia and CVI
Cirta Tooth triggered great discussions during a workshop about CVI in people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in a group of nurses and consultants in community psychiatry, and again in an optical practice. Participants were familiar with visual hallucinations, but much less familiar with other aspects of visual perception and visual processing difficulties.
Stroke and CVI
Cirta Tooth is part of a stroke network within the NHS and had the opportunity to learn and teach about CVI related to stroke.
Language Development and CVI
Educational Formats and Settings
Cirta Tooth offers educational sessions, tailored to your setting and your learning goals. Education can be arranged as an online or face-to-face session. Some examples are listed here.