CLICK HERE to see the Early Childhood Vision Screening Schedule. Become a ROATx Certified Vision Screener of children under one year of age through under five years of age and help us eliminate childhood blindness in Texas. Together we can make a difference in the lives and futures of the children of Texas.  

    June 12th - This is a joint project, to benefit the Austin Musicians that are under insured and is a collaboration between ROATx and Texas Ophthalmological Association that provides eye health exams by Ophthalmologists and refractions by Refracting Opticians. We invite all Certified Opticians, Registered Opticians, and Refracting Opticians to VOLUNTEER to participate in refracting approximately 200 people in one day. Please email us at info@roatx.org or call 512-657-2020 for more information on how you may volunteer to help. 

    June 15th -  Early Registration for our "100 Hour Refraction and Advanced Ophthalmic Optics Course". CLICK HERE for more information on how you can become a certified Refracting Optician.

    June 26th - "2011 ROATx Education Seminar and Convention" committee meeting will be held at our association's training center in Austin. All members interested in helping plan and put together next years annual meeting are invited to participate.( Starts Sunday at 4 P.M. / 1308 W. Anderson Ln, Austin, Texas)

    July 10th - The Refracting Opticians from ROATx are invited for the eighth year in a row to teach Refraction and Advanced Ophthalmic Optics to the Ophthalmology Residents of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Texas. 

    July 11th -  5 Hour "Crash Course in Refraction" (5 advanced level ABO, 5 advanced level NCLE, or 5/Type-A JCAHPO continuing education available). The course cost is FREE for members of ROATx and $100 for non-members of ROATx and is being held at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (Aston Building/Ophthalmology Department). Call Sam Johnson 512-657-2020 for more information.

    July 18th - "2011 ROATx Education Seminar and Convention" committee meeting will be held at our association's training center in Austin. All members interested in helping plan and put together next years annual meeting are invited to participate.( Starts Sunday at 4 P.M. / 1308 W. Anderson Ln, Austin, Texas)

    August 7th - 5 Hour "Crash Course in Refraction" (5 advanced level ABO, 5 advanced level NCLE, or 5/Type-A JCAHPO continuing education available). The course cost is FREE for members of ROATx and $100 for non-members of ROATx and is being held at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston (Ophthalmology Department at 7200-B Cambridge). Call Sam Johnson 512-657-2020 for more information.

    August 8th - The Refracting Opticians from ROATx are invited for the seventh year in a row to teach Refraction and Advanced Ophthalmic Optics to the Ophthalmology Residents of the Baylor University Medical Center in Houston Texas. We encourage all Registered Opticians to become ROATx Certified Refracting Opticians and join us in providing this and other valuable services to the citizens of Texas.

    Registration Continues for our "100 Hour Refraction and Advanced Ophthalmic Optics Course". BECOME A ROATx CERTIFIED REFRACTING OPTICIAN!!!   CLICK HERE for more information on how you can become a ROATx Certified Refracting Optician.

   August 22nd - "2011 ROATx Education Seminar and Convention" committee meeting will be held at our association's training center in Austin. All members interested in helping plan and put together next years annual meeting are invited to participate.( Starts Sunday at 2 P.M. / 1308 W. Anderson Ln, Austin, Texas)

   September 19th - "2011 ROATx Education Seminar and Convention" committee meeting will be held at our association's training center in Austin. All members interested in helping plan and put together next years annual meeting are invited to participate.( Starts Sunday at 2 P.M. / 1308 W. Anderson Ln, Austin, Texas)

  ***RENEW your ROATx  MEMBERSHIP now! FREE CECs now available for all current ROATx Members.  We are talking to the Texas Legislators and they always want to know how many members we have. We need your membership to be current and your availability to help us gain mandatory licensure in Texas. We have simplified your membership options and extended your dues period to go through the end of December 2011. Fax (512-420-0262) or mail your membership renewal to our association offices (1308 West Anderson Lane, Suite B - Austin, Texas 78757). CLICK HERE for renewal form. 

2011 ROATx Activity List 

    June 17-18, 2011- ROATx Annual Education Seminar and Convention to be held in Austin Texas.                Earn up to 10 CECs FREE in you are a current member of ROATx. Join us Saturday evening for a dinner cruise on Austin's beautiful Town Lake.

    Call (512) 657-2020 or e-mail us at info@roatx.org  for more information.  

 Remember - The "Virtual Phoroptor" interactive refraction/ophthalmic optics training CD is now selling for $350.00, as a member of ROATx your cost is only $280.00, you save $70 (20%). This is a great practice, skill development, and training tool in the Art and Science of Ophthalmic Optics.  Call or email ROATx to order this great skill development tool. Call 512-657-2020 for information.

We encourage all Texas Department of State Health Services voluntarily Licensed Opticians to print out and use the "Prescription Analysis Form" (see button at Home Page) when needed in your office. Please remove the name of the doctor's patient at the top of the form and fax it to our office at (512) 459-1560 for reporting purposes. For information on the uses and purpose of the "Prescription Analysis Form" CLICK HERE.