CVI Videos

Whether you’re the parent of a child with CVI or a teacher of students with multiple disabilities, our free video presentations offer useful tips and techniques:

Matt Tietjen provides an overview of designing a school day for a child with CVI
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What's the Complexity? webinar with Matt Tietjen

Functional Vision Assessments: Part 2 of a 3 part CVI Assessment Series
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Effective and Accurate FVAs and LMAs for All Students with...

Ellen Mazel discusses UMass Boston's Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) courses
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Ellen Mazel discusses UMass Boston's Cortical/Cerebral...

Functional Vision Assessments: Part 1 of a 3 part CVI Assessment Series
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Effective and Accurate FVAs and LMAs for All Students with...

Peg Palmer discusses how creating a tangible calendar system for children with CVI can help them
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What's next? A Case Study Using a Calendar Box

Presented by Nicola McDowell
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The Impact of Clutter on Children with Cerebral Visual...

Marguerite will review the complications that complex environments pose for children who have CVI
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Considerations for Reducing Complexity with the Home

This one-hour webinar is a case study on the approach used to teach literacy skills to a kindergarten student with Phase III CVI.

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Trust the Process: A Case Study in Literacy and CVI

Determining Service Levels for Learners with CVI Using the Visual Impairment Scale of Service Intensity
Determining Service Levels for Learners with CVI Using the...

CVI for the TVI series
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Visual Search in CVI: Novel Assessment Using Virtual Reality

During this 1 hour webinar, Dr's Blackstone and Roman-Lantzy will discuss AAC for students with CVI
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Vision Language Learning Communication: An Approach to AAC for...

CVI for the TVI webinar series: 4th installment
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Does This Child have Cerebral/Cortical Vision Impairment?

CVI for the TVI series
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Considerations for CVI & Social Inclusion Parts 1 and 2

During this 1 1/2 hour webinar, Karen Barrows will discuss working with children who have CVI
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Working with Children with CVI from a PT/OT Perspective

CVI for the TVI series
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My Expanding Understanding: The Visual Behaviors of CVI

We met with Ellen Mazel and she just said that everything's going to get better. Can you believe it?
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Becoming a Team to Build Understanding of CVI

The CVI Umbrella: A Community of Ideas
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The CVI Umbrella: A Community of Ideas

This presentation will focus on providing visual access to the school curriculum and environment for the child with Cortical Visual

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One-on-One: Providing Access for the Student with Cortical...

The webinar identifies modifications and supports for therapies and assessments when working with children who have CVI.
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Speech Pathologists and Cortical Visual Impairment: An overview...

Ellen Mazel discusses how the vision is processed in a child with cortical vision impairment (CVI) and the importance of early

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Cortical Vision Impairment: Assessment and Intervention

Dr. Christine Roman presents an overview of cortical visual impairment (CVI) and the importance of early diagnosis and common

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Cortical Visual Impairment and the Evaluation of Functional...

This conversation covers specific strategies and modifications to Orientation & Mobility for students with Cortical Visual

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O&M and CVI

"The NICU Experience" follows the 2004 journey of the Anthony family in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit of The Western

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The NICU Experience

Presenters MaryAnne Roberto and Gunjan Rastogi-Wilson recount the journey of Krish, a tiny wide-eyed newborn with a powerful

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Partners on the Journey: A TVI and Family’s CVI Experience from...

A multi-disciplinary approach can improve the FVA process significantly for students with Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI).
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FVA for Students with CVI

In this video, Ellen Mazel talks about how complexity affects children in phase 1 of Cortical Visual Impairment, as measured on

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Complexity in Phase 1 of CVI

In this video, Ellen Mazel talks about ways that we will assess complexity for children with cortical visual impairment.
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Assessing Complexity for Children with CVI

In this video, Ellen Cadigan Mazel talks about color highlighting for children with Cortical Visual Impairment.
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Color Highlighting for Children with CVI

The presentation offers strategies for supporting growing children with CVI as they learn to use their functional vision

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Understanding What Children With CVI See

Rebecca speaks about the challenges, resources, science and strategy of raising a child with cortical/cerebral visual impairment.

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CVI From a Parent's Perspective

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