Guide
Essential CVI videos
From Ted Talks to YouTube videos, learn from researchers, medical professionals, and CVI professionals
Written by: Rachel Bennett
The power of video enables CVI parents and professionals to access experts as they share their current knowledge and research, describe complex images, and build a more in-depth understanding of CVI and the visual system.
Ted Talks about the brain
- 3 Clues to Understanding Your Brain: Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between cerebral tissue and the mind.
- How Brains Learn to See: Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, details his groundbreaking research into how the brain’s visual system develops. Sinha is the founder of Project Prakash, a non-profit organization that provides sight-saving surgeries to children in India. Sinha and his team then track how the brain develops sight.
- A neural portrait of the human mind: Nancy Kinwasher is a brain imaging pioneer at MIT and discusses what she’s discovered from fMRI scans about the regions of the brain that process certain tasks. If you’re itching to dive into the neuroscience of the visual system, check out Dr. Kinwasher’s lectures on different components of the visual system (videos 3.1 to 4.2).
Videos about CVI
- A CVI journey: From visual uncertainty to visual understanding, presented by Nicola McDowell who is an educator and an individual with CVI. She speaks of her experiences living with CVI and provides insight into how she sees.
- Conversations about CVI, an interview series with medical and educational professionals hosted by John Ravenscroft, a leader in the CVI field.
- CVI for the TVI and other professionals, an montly webinar series (hosted by Perkins) that dives into a wide range of topics related to CVI.
- CVI Scotland’s Library of Videos, a trove of videos that includes simulations of what different aspects CVI might be like, stories from individuals with CVI, and dozens of videos of Dr. Dutton explaining the visual system, aspects of visual impairment and CVI.
- Identification, Assessment and Intervention for Children with CVI, a playlist of webinars presented by Amanda Lueck and Elizabeth Hartmann focusing on the visual behaviors of CVI and multiple methods of assessment.
- Roman on CVI, Christine Roman-Lantzy’s YouTube channel with a growing list of videos where she presents her perspective on a range of CVI topics including in-depth discussions about the CVI characteristics.
- Not In Plain Sight, BBC Scotland Documentary about CVI that includes interviews with children and adults with CVI.
Continue to explore essential CVI resources: research articles, books, and CVI stories from families and individuals with CVI.
