As Jasper learns to ride a bike, it is hard not to think back to those early days in 2011 when he was diagnosed with Cortical Visual Impairment. He was about a week old when his neurologist gave me the diagnosis, “Cortical Blindness” she called it. She recommended registering him with Services for the Blind and added that “color vision is usually intact.” She continued, because my son’s visual impairment involved the brain, and not the eye – there was nothing wrong with my son’s eyes – there was nothing that could be done to improve his vision. Continue reading “Learning to ride a bike”
Start Seeing CVI 