Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

A Penn State alumna turned faculty member is working to help improve communication solutions for children with a brain-based ...

Unlike other vision impairments, CVI stems from an injury to the visual centers of the brain that affects how it communicates with the eyes. People with CVI usually have healthy eyes but have trouble ...

Known as cerebral (or cortical) visual impairment (CVI), some estimates suggest that at least 3% of primary school children exhibit CVI-related visual problems, which vary, but may include difficulty ...

IT WORKS FIRSTHAND. LIKE I CAN BE AROUND FRIENDS AND I DON’T FEEL LIKE LEFT OUT. AVA HENEHAN IS FEELING MORE COMFORTABLE IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS. A SECOND YEAR STUDENT ...

Knowledge about the occurrence of CVI in persons with or without intellectual disability can alter the way of approaching the person. For example, it is important to offer objects one by one or for a ...

Experts convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . None of the training programs provided more than 2 hours of instruction on cerebral visual impairment. Most ...

A brain-related visual impairment, which until recently was thought to be rare, may affect one in every 30 children according to new research investigating the prevalence of Cerebral Visual Impairment ...

Lorenzo reads out loud from an iPad inside a classroom at Miami Lighthouse Academy. “Pete was getting more ...” He pauses, sounds out one of the large, yellow words, then starts reading again.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 10. Visual impairment has an impact on all aspects of a child’s development. Lack of interaction with the surrounding environment hinders ...

All individuals with CVI included in this study were seen in Bartiméus, an institute for diagnostics, rehabilitation and schooling of the visually impaired in the Netherlands, in the period 2002–2012.