The NPC Test: What It's Not Telling You
How patients can pass routine testing and still struggle—and what that means for everyday practice.
Explore what Near Point of Convergence can and cannot tell us, why some patients continue to struggle despite apparently normal findings, and how observation can lead to practical assessment, interpretation and management, including an understanding of where treatment may fit.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
7:00 pm UK · 8:00 pm Central Europe
Free registration below.
What You'll Learn in This Webinar:
Why passing a test is not always the same as functioning comfortably.
What Near Point of Convergence can and cannot tell us.
Why some patients continue to struggle despite apparently normal findings.
Practical ideas for assessment, interpretation and management, and an understanding of where treatment may fit.
Why This Matters
Many patients pass routine testing and are told everything is normal.
Yet they continue to struggle with reading, screens, concentration, or sustained visual tasks.
The challenge is often not performing another test.
The challenge is understanding what the findings mean and knowing what to do next.
Recognition is only the beginning.
The goal is to begin helping these patients.
Who This Webinar Is For
• Optometrists who use the NPC test but feel uncertain how much weight to give the result.
• Clinicians who want greater confidence interpreting NPC beyond a single number.
• Practitioners who sense that “normal” findings don’t always match patient experience.
• Optometrists who see patients who continue to struggle and want practical ways to assess, interpret and manage them, but are unsure where to begin.
No specialist background in binocular vision or vision therapy is required.
Meet Your Host:
Robert Lederman MCOptom, FOVDR is a UK-trained developmental optometrist who has been in practice since 1987 and has seen more than 18,000 patients. He has lectured internationally on binocular vision, visual function and clinical assessment and is a recipient of the Getman Award for his contribution to developmental optometry.
Much of Robert’s work focuses on helping clinicians understand patients whose difficulties are not fully explained by routine findings, and on translating clinical observations into practical assessment, interpretation and management.
In this webinar, he will use the Near Point of Convergence test as an entry point into broader questions of interpretation, patient function, and practical management, and what clinicians can do to begin helping these patients.
Reserve Your Place
This webinar is provided by Vision Centre Ltd.
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Learn more at RobertLederman.com
Educational content presented by Robert Lederman MCOptom FOVDR.
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