Webinar
Expanding your child’s potential for visual improvement
This presentation will discuss CVI diagnosis and assessment methods and appropriate strategies matched to assessment to foster this improvement.
In this webinar:
CVI is the leading cause of visual impairment in children in the United States. Due to visual neuroplasticity, there is a possibility of improvement for children in the areas of visual attention and visual recognition, the key issues of CVI. This presentation will discuss diagnosis and assessment methods and appropriate strategies matched to assessment to foster this improvement. We will discuss the essential need for collaboration between medical professionals, parents, early intervention and school-based team members as it relates to diagnosis, assessment and interventions for optimal improvement.
Resources for CVI
CVI Early Connections Presentations about CVI:
- Marguerite Tibaudo: Building Concept Development: Accessibility for Children with Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)
- Ellen Mazel: CVI: Expanding A Child’s Potential for Visual Improvement
CVI Web Resources:
- CVI Hub, Perkins School for the Blind:
http://www.perkinselearning.org/cvi
This site has lots of resources if you do a search on “CVI”. There are opportunities for online classes, face to face classes, webcasts, webinars, Teachable Moments and articles. - Webinars for CVI, Perkins School for the Blind:
https://www.perkinselearning.org/videos/webinar/cvi - CVI Scotland:
https://cviscotland.org - Dr. Gordon Dutton: Strategies and Visual Skills Inventories
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/167457/Visual-Skills-Inventory-Younger-Child-4-8-years.pdf
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/167459/Visual-Skills-Inventory-Older-Child-9-12-years.pdf - Brain Recovery Project:
https://www.brainrecoveryproject.org/educators/
This is information for students after brain surgery but great strategies and information for all kids with CVI here. - American Printing House for the Blind:
http://tech.aph.org/cvi/
CVI website for updates on materials, programs, and publications. - American Foundation for the Blind:
https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/eye-conditions/cortical-visual-impairment-traumatic-brain-injury-and - BBC Documentary: Not in Plain Sight:
http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resources/bbc-scotland-documentary-not-plain-sight - Nicola McDowell: Adult with undiagnosed CVI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SoRdMovfI - Dr. Els Oribus, Teach CVI:
https://www.teachcvi.net
Books:
- Vision and the Brain: Understanding Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children
by Amanda Hall Lueck (Editor), Gordon N. Dutton (Editor) April 9, 2015 - Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention
by Christine Roman-Lantzy provides an introduction to CVI.
Calendar Systems & Developing Concepts (not CVI specific):
- Object Schedule Systems, Marguerite (Bilms) Tibaudo:
https://www.perkinselearning.org/videos/teachable-moment/object-schedule-systems - Concepts to Teach:
https://www.teachingvisuallyimpaired.com/concepts-to-teach.html - Language Concepts:
https://www.tsbvi.edu/preschool/1117-early-concept-development
Active Learning:
- Active Learning Space:
http://www.activelearningspace.org
Research Links:
- Lab of Visual Neuroplasticity, Lotfi Merabet:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/merabetlab/home
Blogs and Podcasts:
- Start Seeing CVI:
https://startseeingcvi.com - CVI Teacher, Ellen Mazel:
https://cviteacher.wordpress.com - Kaleidoscope, Jessica Marquardt:
http://thecvipodcast.libsyn.com/testing-are-cvi-parents-out-there-the-marquardts-episode-1
Presenter
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Ellen Mazel, M.Ed., CTVI
Director of CVI Research and Development at the CVI Center at PerkinsMeet Ellen
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