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Florida Board-Approved Provider # 50-13491

2   Elective; Dispensing
2   Elective; Administrative
2   Elective; Management
2   Elective; Management
2   Elective; Management
1   Elective; Administrative
1   Elective; Management
2   Elective; Sales
2   Elective; Communication
2   Elective; Development
2   Elective; Development
2   Elective; Administrative
1   Elective; Management
1   Elective, Management
2   Elective; Management
3   Elective; Management

2   Elective; Communication

2  Elective;  Communication

2  Elective;  Management

1 Elective; Development

1 Elective; Management

2 Elective; Communication

1 Elective; Sales

1 Elective; Marketing

4 Elective; Management

2 Elective; Management

2 Elective; Communication

2 Elective; Management


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

1 Home Study; Technical

1 Home Study; Technical - CL

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 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
2  Technical; Contacts
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2  Technical; Contacts

1 Technical; Contacts

1 Technical; Contacts

1 Technical; Contacts

1 Technical; Contacts

1 Technical; Contacts

2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
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2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
1 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
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2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Contacts
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
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2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
2 Technical; Spectacle
1 Technical; Spectacle
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2 Technical; Spectacle

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2  Technical; Spectacle

2  Technical; Spectacle

2  Technical; Spectacle

2  Technical; Spectacle

2  Technical; Spectacle

2  Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

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4 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

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2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

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1 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

1  Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

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2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

2 Technical; Spectacle

4 Technical Spectacle

1 Technical; Spectacle

EL = Elective; HS = Home Study; RQ = Required; TC = Technical Contact Lenses; TS = Technical Spectacles


(*)  Required only the first time you renew your license
(**)   No longer required for license applicants.  Highly recommended!
​(***)  Required of newly registered apprentices (must be done during the first year of your apprenticeship)

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!

TS-89  Free-Form: Understanding and Selling



​Spectacle Hours Available: 156


​Total Unique Hours Available:  278

 

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

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

HS-29  Abbe Road

HS-30  An Optician's Guide to Improving Workplace Relationships        
 

Home-Study Hours Available: 37

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 January 2025