TS-01 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Opticians, The (ABO)
TS-02 212° Dispensing
TS-03 The “All Wet” Liquids Seminar (ABO)
TS-04 Anisometropia: 21st Century Applications
TS-05 Dispensing A – Z
TS-06 Polarization and UV Protection – Soak Up the Sun! (ABO)
TS-07 Polarization and Polarized Lenses (ABO)
TS-08 Opticianry On-Line (ABO)
TS-09 Premium Optical Products, part 1 (ABO)
TS-10 Premium Optical Products, part 2 (ABO)
TS-11 Progressive Lenses and New Technology (ABO)
TS-12 Frame Materials: Features & Advantages
TS-13 One-Minute Optician, The – part 1 (ABO)
TS-14 One-Minute Optician, The – part 2 (ABO)
TS-15 ‘Opias…’Itises…Phobias
TS-16 Putting PROFESSIONAL Back Into ECP (ABO)
TS-17 Troubleshooting and Overcoming Objections
TS-18 Multiple Pairs with Progressives & Photochromics
TS-19 Optimizing & Customizing the Patient Fit: 12 Tips
TS-20 Geriatric Dispensing – Catering to Senior Patients
TS-21 Competing with Internet Optical Sellers
TS-22 25 Ways to Improve Patient Satisfaction
TS-23 Hands-On Frame Adjustments Clinic
TS-24 Resolving Common and Uncommon Patient Complaints
TS-25 Tool Time – Tools of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
TS-26 Evolution of Progressive Lenses: 1959-2015, The
TS-27 World of Transitions Lenses, The
TS-28 Anti, Anti-Reflective Lens Course, The
TS-29 Most-Needed, Least-Known Second Pair, The
TS-30 What the Doctor Ordered – Ask the Ophthalmologist
TS-31 What the Doctor Ordered – Ask the Optometrist
TS-32 What’s New With Progressives?
TS-33 Apps and Websites to Enhance Your Practice of Opticianry
TS-34 Living in the Material World – Frames and Lenses
TS-35 Consultative Dispensing
TS-36 Differences in AR Quality - Is the Extra $$ Worth It?
TS-37 Raising the Bar - Spectacles
TS-38 STP - Sunglasses, Transitions, and Polarization
TS-39 The Dark Side of the Blue
TS-40 Macular Degeneration: A Primer for Front-Line ECPs
TS-41 From Franklin to Free-Form - Multifocal Lenses from A-Z
TS-42 The Ultimate Second-Pair Seminar
TS-43 The Harm and Benefits of Blue Light
TS-44 Macular Degeneration for ECPs Cram Course
TS-45 Blue Light Cram Course
TS-46 The All-New 2017 One-Minute Optician
TS-47 Expanding Your Optical Vocabulary, part I
TS-48 Expanding Your Optical Vocabulary, part II
TS-49 Not Your Mama's Lenses!
TS-50 Lens Solutions for Digital Eye Strain
TS-51 A.R. Lenses for the Real World
TS-52 The Wild Blue Yonder: Addressing Blue-Light Challenges
TS-53 The Optics of Free-Form, Progressive Lenses
TS-54 The Digital and Free-Form Seminar
TS-54 Toy Box Opticianry
TS-56 Not Your Mama's Lenses - All-New 2018 Edition
TS-57 Fresnel: The Man, The Method, and More
TS-58 New Products 2019-2020
TS-59 POW! Taking Position-of-Wear Measurements
TS-60 Expanding Your Optical Vocabulary in 1 Hour
TS-61 The One-Minute Optician, 2018 Edition
TS-62 Selling Strategies for DES, CVS, and HEV
TS-63 The Basics of Refraction
TS-64 How to Irritate Your Patients
TS-65 Competing With On-Line Sellers
TS-66 The Sleeping Giant of Second-Pair Sales
TS-67 UV vs. Blue Light
TS-68 OHIO: Occupational Hygiene in Opticianry
TS-69 Toy Box Opticianry
TS-70 Spectacle Lens Solutions for Digital Eye Strain
TS-71 Smart Life: Evolution of Lens Design for Dynamic Connectivity
TS-72 Strategies for Second-Pair Sales
TS-73 More Protection...Less Reflections
TS-74 It All Becomes Clear: The Self-Tinting Lens Opportunity
TS-75 Do You See What I See? A Doctor's Insight Into Patient Experience
TS-76 Spectacle Lens Solutions for Driving's Visual Challenges
TS-77 Upgrade Your Standard Single-Vision Lens
TS-78 Drive Safe!
TS-79 Rx Troubleshooting
TS-80 Prescribing Eyewear
TS-81 Fresnel: Press-On Prisms and More
TS-82 Myth Busters: Florida Opticians Edition!
TS-83 Ocular Disease and the ECP
TS-84 Headache and the Ophthalmic Dispenser
TS-85 Post-Refractive Surgery and the ECP
TS-86 Pediatrics and the ECP
TS-87 OTC and the ECP (Over-the-Counter Medications and the ECP)
TS-88 Do You See What I See? Marathon Edition!
Spectacle Hours Available: 155
Total Unique Hours Available: 275
TC-01 Tale of Ocular Anatomy, A (ABO)
TC-02 Basic Contact Lens Course for Dispensing Opticians (ABO)
TC-03 Contact Lens Dos and Don’ts
TC-04 Contact Lens Solutions
TC-05 Evolution of Contact Lens Theory and Fitting, The
TC-06 Contact Lens Course for the Spectacle-ular Optician, The
TC-07 Ask the Doctor – A Contact Lens Forum
TC-08 Raising the Bar - Contact Lenses
TC-09 "Solutions" for Contact Lenses
TC-10 The "Perfect" I & R Session
TC-11 HIV-AIDS: Contact Lenses and the ECP
TC-12 When to Divorce a Lens
TC-13 Myopia Management with Contact Lenses
TC-14 Gas Permeable Contact Lens Fitting
Contact Lens Hours Available: 21
RQ-01 HIV-AIDS and the Eye-Care Professional
RQ-02 Hands-On Adjustment Seminar
RQ-03 Florida Opticianry Rules and Laws
RQ-04 Reduction of Ophthalmic, Medical Errors (ABO)
RQ-05 Apprentice Orientation Class, The
RQ-06 Initial Florida Opticianry Rules and Laws
RQ-07 The Seventh Sense of Ophthalmic Dispensing (Law Class)
Required Hours Available: 13
EL-01 Calming Upset Customers (ABO)
EL-02 Professional Telephone Skills (ABO)
EL-03 Interviewing Skills and Hiring Practices (ABO)
EL-04 Essential Management Skills for ECPs (ABO)
EL-05 Motivation, Delegation, and Team-Building for ECPs (ABO)
EL-06 Math Bowl Math for Dispensing Opticians
EL-07 Selling Yourself First
EL-08 Science of Selling, The
EL-10 Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact
EL-11 Building Strategic Thinking Skills
EL-12 The SELF Profile – Personality Dynamics
EL-13 Getting Loopy – Creating and Presenting an In-Office Loop
EL-14 10 Ways to Become the Best Boss You Can Be (ABO)
EL-15 How to Hire, Retain, and Release Employees (ABO)
EL-16 Five Fundamentals of Optical Supervision (ABO)
EL-17 New Managers Mini Track (ABO)
EL-18 Business Writing and Grammar Skills "Four" Dummies
EL-19 Answering the $64,000 Question: "Why...$$$" (ABO)
EL-20 The 12 Most Common Practice Management Mistakes
EL-21 Building Memory Skills
EL-22 Let's Have a Meeting
EL-23 Improving Sales and Relationships through Communication
EL-24 The Disruption of On-Line Sales to the Optical Insdustry
EL-25 Cost-Effective On-Line Marketing Strategies for ECPs
EL-26 4-hour Management and Leadership Cram Course
EL-27 Essential Management and Leadership Skills
EL-28 Essential Skills for Dynamic Public Speaking
EL-29 Interviewing Skills for ECPs
Elective Hours Available: 51
Optical Seminars, Inc. – Available Courses as of February 2024
2 Home Study; Required
2 Home Study; Required (**)
2 Home Study; Required
1 Home Study; Required (*)
2 Home Study; Required (***)
2 Home Study; Elective - Mgt.
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Elective
2 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical - CL
1 Home Study; Technical - CL
2 Home Study; Technical - CL
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical - CL
1 Home Study; Elective
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1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical - CL
1 Home Study; Technical - CL
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Technical
1 Home Study; Elective
1 HIV-AIDS; Required (*)
2 Adjustment; Required (**)
2 Law; Required
2 Medical Errors; Required
2 Apprenticeship (***)
2 Law; Required (**)
2 Law; Required
2 Technical; Contacts
2 Technical; Contacts
1 Technical; Contacts
1 Technical; Contacts
2 Technical; Contacts
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EL = Elective; HS = Home Study; RQ = Required; TC = Technical Contact Lenses; TS = Technical Spectacles
(*) Required only the first time you renew your license
(**) Required for license applicants. Call 352-848-4222 for details
(***) Required of newly registered apprentices (must be done during the first year of your apprenticeship)
HS-01 Florida Laws and Rules for Dispensing Opticians
HS-02 Initial Florida Laws and Rules for Opticianry Applicants
HS-03 The Reduction of Medical and Ophthalmic Errors
HS-04 HIV and AIDS
HS-05 The Apprentice Orientation Course
HS-06 Essentials of Management and Supervision for ECPs
HS-07 Polarization and Sun Wear
HS-08 Common Optical Disorders
HS-09 Understanding AR and Increasing Percentages
HS-10 Competing with On-Line Sellers
HS-11 Anisometropia in the 21st Century
HS-12 Living in the Material World
HS-13 The Dark Side of the Blue
HS-14 Contact Lens Solutions
HS-15 Contact Lens Dos and Don'ts
HS-16 A Basic Contact Lens Primer
HS-17 Fresnel
HS-18 The Evolution of Contact Lenses
HS-19 Building Memory Skills
HS-20 Cleanliness and Hygiene for ECPs
HS-21 The "Perfect" I&R Session
HS-22 Geriatric Dispensing
HS-23 Falling: The Dangers of Multifocals
HS-24 Contact Lenses: Technology, Terminology, Tomorrow
HS-25 Scleral Lenses in One Hour or Less!
HS-26 Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye
HS-27 Mythbusters: Florida Optician's Edition
HS-28 The History of Opticianry and More
Home-Study Hours Available: 35
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