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| Thread ID: 102384 | 2009-08-17 22:04:00 | Opticians and prescription. | Colpol (444) | PC World Chat |
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| 801988 | 2009-08-17 22:04:00 | How do opticians test people who have intellectual disabilities and are unable to communicate or understand? Also I sometimes see babies wearing glasses. Obviously to young to communicate and say when it looks correct when being tested. |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 801989 | 2009-08-17 22:08:00 | When communicating with seriously "comprehensionally challenged" people, it is easiest to ask the party whips to deal with them. With babies, at least in Ponsonby, it is only important that the frame be fashionable. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 801990 | 2009-08-17 22:21:00 | I have only been to the "Gluepot" twice in my lifetime. Perhaps this explains why I don't wear optical enhancements even now. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 801991 | 2009-08-18 00:44:00 | Are you a bit of a sniffer Sweep ? :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 801992 | 2009-08-18 03:10:00 | Nope. It was a famous pub in Ponsonby. Once the three lamps. mytudorhouse.blogspot.com It ain't a pub or music venue now I see. One less reason for me to go to Auckland. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 801993 | 2009-08-18 03:17:00 | How do opticians test people who have intellectual disabilities and are unable to communicate or understand? Also I sometimes see babies wearing glasses. Obviously to young to communicate and say when it looks correct when being tested. A lot of opticians have a machine that can detect the level of correction necessary for each eye. They basically get you to look into a machine, then the machine prints out the prescription for your glasses. They will then manually check it by setting up the machine which you look through to the same prescription, and make minor tweaks to see whether it's better or worse with astigmatism correction and so on. Presumably, people with intellectual disabilities (or otherwise cannot communicate) would simply use the machine, without the follow-up check. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 801994 | 2009-08-18 03:22:00 | I think that Ponsonby's only reason for existence is to give people somewhere to point at when they look where the Gluepot used to be. Otherwise it is just a road obstruction. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 801995 | 2009-08-18 03:26:00 | And adding a bit to somebody's explanation Google says: they use an instrument called a 'retinoscope' www.framesdirectblog.com In fact there are a number sites that Google throws up explaining how they do it. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 801996 | 2009-08-18 03:29:00 | When dealing with "seasoned practitioners" is it safe to assume we should take what they say with a grain of salt, with no need to put any on them? | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 801997 | 2009-08-18 04:15:00 | Thanks Terry and SB. Amaising what technology can do. |
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