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You’re Not Alone: Parent Support Group

If you’re craving the feeling of being seen, heard, and understood by people who know your challenges, your joys, the beauty and pain in your struggle, please join us on our next live support call! Next Support Group Call: Nov 12, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada). Topic: Self-care: What does it really mean and […]

Little Bear Turns Ten!

June 3, 2020 by Andrei 2 Comments

Can you believe our Little Bear is TEN years old?! As we approached a decade of caring for a child with multiple disabilities, we started thinking about what we’ve learned and what we can share at this point on our journey. We are focusing on ways to breathe new life into Little Bear Sees and […]

Filed Under: CVI BLOG Tagged With: Little Bear, Lukas, Update

Reducing Visual Complexity in Books

September 10, 2016 by Andrei Leave a Comment

We’ve previously shared a list of books that we recommend for children with CVI because they are visually simple and include highly saturated colors. A couple of issues with books are that two dimensional images are more difficult to visually process than three-dimensional objects, and even simple books can sometimes be too visually busy, making […]

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Utilizing Salient Features

August 7, 2016 by Andrei Leave a Comment

Salient features are noticeable aspects that help the brain categorize incoming information. Think of an elephant. What consistently stands out across multiple images of an elephant so that we are able to recognize it? We usually think of an elephant as having gray skin, four thick legs, a long trunk, and big round ears. These are […]

Filed Under: CVI BLOG Tagged With: anchor, bottle, Cortical Visual Impairment, cvi, red, salient features, tap-n-see zoo

The Myth of Cortical Blindness

April 9, 2014 by aubri Leave a Comment

Over and over again, we hear stories about kids being diagnosed with cortical blindness. Unfortunately, parents don’t always know any different and, having been told their child is blind, they give up on finding ways to help improve vision! According to the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, “Cortical blindness is an older term […]

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Little Bear’s Christmas List

December 19, 2013 by Andrei Leave a Comment

We’ve been having a great conversation over at our Facebook page about gift ideas for kids with CVI.  We know how tough it can be to find good gifts, but this year we’ve gotten some excellent ideas from all of you!  So, after much consideration, here is the final list of what we decided on […]

Filed Under: CVI BLOG Tagged With: cerebral palsy, christmas, cvi, dark room, enabling devices, facebook, gift, glitter, toys, visual stimulation, wheelchairs

CVI: Visions of Change Conference

June 21, 2012 by Andrei Leave a Comment

Little Bear Sees table at the Visions of Change Conference

As you know, last Friday and Saturday, June 15th and 16th, 2012, we attended the first cortical visual impairment (CVI) conference hosted by the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children! The conference was called CVI: Visions of Change and featured a lot of excellent information about CVI! There were also a number of tables set […]

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Optometrists vs. Ophthalmologists

April 20, 2012 by Andrei 6 Comments

Earlier this month, we were introduced to the website of a prominent pediatric optometrist, Dr. Bill Takeshita (drbillfoundation.org). Through this site, we learned for the first time about the difference between optometrists and ophthalmologists. Lukas has been seeing an ophthalmologist since he was 4 months old, but had never seen an optometrist until a few […]

Filed Under: CVI BLOG, News Tagged With: glasses, ophthalmologists, optometrists

A closer look at cortical visual impairment (CVI)

According to Dr. Roman-Lantzy, CVI “is the leading cause of visual impairment in children today”. There are many conditions that can cause CVI, including anoxic brain damage, periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), hypoxic brain damage (including hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy) , meningitis, encephalitis, head injury, intraventricular hemorrhage, structural abnormalities, and metabolic conditions. As more critically ill babies are […]

Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) Resources

Below you will find a list of resources that have been invaluable to us in learning about CVI. We hope they will be useful to you as well! We are always looking for new resources to add to the page, so please let us know if there are resources you think belong on the list. […]

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