Dr Louise Gow has 30 years' experience as an optometrist working in primary care, university, hospital and also in the third sector. She has a portfolio career as a specialist optometrist in low vision and learning disabilities and currently runs the low vision strategy work, health and social care professionals training and low vision clinic at RNIB. She also works as bank staff for St Thomas Hospital, London in the low vision clinic and during term time provides one clinic a week for SeeAbility Special Schools Eye Care Service. Louise is also a GOC registrant member of the registration committee. Her doctoral theses was a qualitative grounded theory exploration of eye care for children with ASD.