The Optometric Extension Program Foundation (OEPF) is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the discipline of

optometry Optometry is a specialized health care profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities. Optometrists are health care professionals who typically provide comprehensive primary eye care. In the Uni ...

, with recent emphasis on behavioral optometry and vision therapy.David A. Goss
"History of Optometry."
Web posted lecture handout. Accessed November 10, 2020. The OEPF produces the monthly ''Optometry & Visual Performance'' (OVP) journal, and previously published the ''

Journal of Behavioral Optometry The ''Journal of Behavioral Optometry'' was a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Optometric Extension Program Foundation. It covered clinically relevant behavioral, functional, and developmental aspects of the visual system The v ...

''. OEPF also reprints writings and lectures relating to vision. The OEP Foundation has its origins in a

continuing education Continuing education (similar to further education in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United ...

program developed by the Oklahoma Optometric Association for its members in the 1920s. Optometrists E.B. Alexander (the secretary of the Oklahoma Extension Program) and

A.M. Skeffington Arthur Marten Skeffington (1890 - 1976) was an American optometrist known to some as "the father of behavioral optometry".

("the father of behavioral optometry") have been credited as establishing the OEP Foundation in 1928.http://www.opt.indiana.edu/ohs/sample.htm Hindsight: Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society. Vol. 29, Jul. 1998, No. 3. Accessed September 19, 2006."A.M. Skeffington, O.D.: The Father of Behavioral Optometry."
Visionaries (Reprinted from January–December 1991 Issues of Review of Optometry) Copyright 1999 Review of Optometry. Accessed September 19, 2006."Team of the Century.
Oklahoma Association of Optometric Physicians. Accessed September 19, 2006. ote: This reference credits E.B. Alexander and Billy Farmer as co-founders of the optometric extension program./ref> The OEP Foundation began with 51 members and has developed into an international organization with 3,500 members worldwide.

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