6 Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment
What is cortical/cerebral visual impairment (CVI)?
Cortical/cerebral visual impairment is caused by neurological damage or trauma to the brain. CVI can occur on its own or in combination with an ocular visual impairment. CVI is one of the most common causes of visual impairment in children in developed countries. Students with CVI may show various differences in how they use their vision, including difficulty with visual attention, difficulty integrating vision with movement, sensitivity to visual clutter, and fluctuation of their vision over time.
Pennsylvania Training & Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) CVI course webinars (CVI Scotland, n.d.)
Please take time to watch the following two webinars.
- Who are the children with CVI? (Lueck & Hartmann, 2020b) is a 42-minute recorded webinar that reviews “the unique ways that CVI manifests in children [and] discuss[es] what is CVI; who are the children who have CVI; how are these children identified in the schools; and reasons underlying misidentification” (YouTube description box).
- Students with CVI: The CVI Profile (Lueck & Hartmann, 2020a) is a 53-minute recorded webinar that looks “at the varied manifestations of CVI for children of all ages including those with additional disabilities with a coordinated approach that leads to individualized CVI Profiles” (YouTube description box).
For more information, please see the CVI Self-Paced Short Course (registration with a Google account is required) (Herlich & Nguyen, 2021).
References
CVI Scotland. (n.d.). PaTTAN CVI course, topic 1 – Identifying and working with children with CVI: What I need to know. https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=236
Herlich, S., & Nguyen, M. (2021). CVI self-paced short course [Online course]. Google Classroom. https://classroom.google.com/c/NTI4ODY2NjIyNjgz?cjc=265c263
Lueck, A., & Hartmann, E. [PaTTAN]. (2020a, September 2). Students with CVI: The CVI Profile [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJ7qHz09KE
Lueck, A., & Hartmann, E. [PaTTAN]. (2020b, September 2). Who are the children with CVI? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ODJGlFPmH14?si=bTy3Ldx5H5BEEMMd
