When your child comes into the classroom, it is often the first time that educators are hearing the words “cortical visual impairment” (CVI). Training new educational teams or therapists or providers on cortical visual impairment means learning about the CVI Range, guiding principles, CVI ten characteristics, the goals of each Phase of CVI (Roman), and what CVI looks like for your child. In all of this, the strategies of salient features and comparative language (Roman) can get lost in the mix. Continue reading ““Does the mailman know Santa?””
If you are the parent of a child with cortical visual impairment (CVI), why would you read a book about children with autism? Children with CVI and children with autism are different, their brains are different, but they share some behaviors. So much so that, when educators or therapists or providers see those behaviors in your child, the tendency is to see autism, and not to see CVI. Those shared behaviors were the motivation for reading 
