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CVI Now Educator Hub
A space for educators and providers working with kids and adults with CVI to learn, network, share resources, and build community.
Welcome to the CVI Now Educator Hub
We’re so glad you’re here. This is a space for educators and providers working with kids and adults with CVI to learn, network, share resources, and build community.
We know that CVI can be challenging to understand and navigate. And we know how hard you work, the systematic realities you navigate, and how much you want to serve and empower your students with CVI. Together, our work can improve outcomes for students with CVI.
We’ve got you!
Educator Chats
We will chat about Perkins CVI Protocol Q&A on June 25th at 2:30 pm ET. Ilse Willems, Senior Director of The CVI Center, will join to answer questions that have come up during assessment.
Coffee and Connect
An attendee-led discussion sessions for you to connect with others and learn about helpful tools and resources. We will be taking a break from our Coffee and Connect sessions for the summer and will resume in September 2025!
CVI Educator Group
The CVI Now Educator Facebook group is a safe place to connect, share, problem-solve, and get answers to your questions.
Explore our other educator community offerings.
- In-person workshops! Building Expertise with The Perkins CVI Protocol℠: An interactive workshop. The CVI Center is coming to you! Find locations and dates.
- CVI for the TVI and other professionals, a webinar style series on CVI and related topics. Register and find links to recordings.
- CVI Educator Toolbox: Resources across the disciplines, introductory CVI materials for OTs, O&Ms, PTs, AT specialists, BCBAs, TAs, SLPs, TVI, and classroom teachers to support and foster collaboration amongst and across disciplines.
- Contact Nicole Homerin with any questions and to access recordings of past educator community chats.
The Protocol℠
The Perkins CVI Protocol℠ is an expert evaluation tool designed to help teachers of the visually impaired create a robust, individualized CVI evaluation report with recommendations for students with CVI.
Training & Courses
Learn about the impact of CVI, comprehensive CVI assessment, and intervention strategies and instructional planning practices.
Interventions Library
A virtual guide to help select and implement intervention strategies for the diverse population of students with CVI.
CVI: Know the facts
- Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is the leading cause of childhood blindness and low vision, yet it’s alarming underdiagnosed. Less than 20% of kids and young adults in the U.S. with CVI have a diagnosis.
- CVI commonly occurs with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, developmental delay, rare diseases, and other conditions that affect the brain.
- CVI also occurs alongside ocular visual impairments. Because it is a brain-based visual impairment, individuals with 20/20 vision can still be blind or have low vision due to CVI.
- CVI impacts all aspects of life: development, learning, socialization, navigation, access to the environment, and more.
more CVI resources, guides, tools, and services
CVI is a big deal and a complex condition. If you’re searching for a place to start, we’ve got you. Empower students living with the leading cause of childhood blindness to get the access, education, and agency they deserve. Start here.
- Learn all about CVI with a deep dive into the CVI visual behaviors.
- Access starts with assessment! Learn more about CVI assessments.
- Ensure full access to education by using a multisensory approach for children with CVI.
- Explore CVI and communication starting with our communication hub.
- Create CVI accessibility in calendar systems with our 4 part series.
- Learn how to adapt school materials with these 8 ideas for worksheets.
- Center CVI in O&M instruction starting with part 1 in our series.
- Spread CVI awareness with our easily shareable 1-pagers.
- Learn how we’re pushing the field forward when you read these key takeaways for educators from the 2024 CVI Conference.
Continuing Education
CVI Courses from Perkins Academy
Engage in self-paced continuing education courses focused on supporting students with CVI, created and taught by experts from Perkins School for the Blind.
