Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 531 - Vision Screening
Subchapter 5 - Vision Screening Standards for Children
Section 310:531-5-3 - Approval of vision screening providers

(a) In order to become an approved vision screening provider, an individual must make application to the Department and include documentation of successful completion of training conducted by an approved trainer using an approved training curriculum that includes the following:

(b) The Department will review and approve vision screening providers.

(c) The vision screening provider approval will be valid from the date of approval by the Department and ends three years from the most recently approved training.

(d) All approved vision screening providers will be added to the statewide registry on the Internet website maintained by the Department.

(e) Oklahoma licensed optometrists and ophthalmologists are exempt from the application and successful completion of vision screening standards training by an approved trainer, and are exempt from being placed on the approved vision screeners registry managed by the Department.

(f) Unless otherwise provided by law, no person shall engage in vision screening as provided in 70 O.S. § 1210.284 without first being listed on the vision screening registry maintained by the Department.