The OEP Foundation has its origins in a continuing education post graduate program developed by the Oklahoma Optometric Association for its members in the 1920s.
Alexander (the secretary of the Oklahoma Extension Program) and A.M. Skeffington ("the father of behavioral optometry") have been credited as establishing the OEP Foundation in 1928.
OVP is a free, international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the advancement of the role of optometry in enhancing and rehabilitating visual performance.
To foster a positive environment to advance human progress on vision, the visual process, and clinical care through research, education, and a dynamic network of professionals.
OEPF commits to thinking long-term about the well-being of the organization and shares the passion of behavioral/developmental vision to provide for the visual welfare of the patients we serve.
It goes beyond standard eye examinations and refractive error correction (such as prescribing glasses or contact lenses) to consider how visual processes affect a person's overall functioning and well-being.