Starts on October 19, 2020 to December 6, 2020 and runs for 7 weeks. Participants will move toward an advanced understanding of the CVI Characteristics (Roman-Lantzy) with an emphasis on how they manifest in students who score in late Phase II and Phase III on The CVI Range (Roman-Lantzy).
We will study the characteristic "Difficulty with Visual Complexity" in depth, explore its central relationship to the other characteristics, and examine the ways in which it can impact behavior and access to education for a child with CVI. Our study of visual complexity will integrate the literature on cortical and cerebral visual impairment.
Participants will learn how to use The What's the Complexity Framework in order to evaluate the complexity of school environments, tasks and materials and to guide educational teams in creating more visually accessible, appropriate learning activities for children with CVI.
In addition to learning how to rate the complexity level of a particular environment or education task, we will also emphasize the importance of balancing the complexity of the environment and task in each activity, managing cumulative complexity and visual fatigue throughout the school day, assessing interpretation of two-dimensional images, and providing direct instruction in salient features.
Required Text
"What’s the Complexity" will use selected chapters from:
Roman Lantzy, C. A. (Ed.), (2018) Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles, Louisville, KY, The American Printing House for the Blind.
Lueck, A.H., & Dutton, G.N. (2015). Vision and the Brain: Understanding Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children.
New York: American Foundation for the Blind.
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CREDIT TYPES |
COST |
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PDPs, CEs, ACVREP, CTLEs, OSPI |
$425.00 |
You will have the opportunity to add 3 graduate credits to your registration for an additional $295.00 through Fitchburg State University (Fitchburg, MA). Instructions will be provided to registered participants two weeks before the start date.
Course Objectives
Participants will:
- Identify the main barriers to visual access throughout the school day for children with CVI
- Explain how the CVI characteristics manifest in children throughout The CVI Range, particularly those who score later on The CVI Range (late Phase II through Phase III)
- Explain how inappropriate visual demands can affect the behavior of children with CVI
- Assess a child’s ability to interpret two-dimensional images
- Design interventions for math and literacy interventions
- Describe the ways in which the ideas and strategies from the literature on cortical visual impairment and cerebral visual impairment relate to and complement one another
- Complete a What’s the Complexity Assessment for one of their own students
- Contribute to an electronic salient features dictionary that will be available to participants beyond the completion of the course
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Contact Perkins eLearning at perkins.elearning@Perkins.org for any questions.
What people are saying about this course....
"Matt Tietjen's What's The Complexity Framework is nothing short of brilliant. He so expertly synthesizes ideas and research from multiple perspectives in the CVI world, which only deepened my knowledge and understanding. This frame translate the CVI Range results into a clear user-friendly framework for educational teams that reveals how profoundly CVI affects our children. I am so incredibly grateful to have been able to take this class and receive his detailed feedback... "
"It was very practical and useful! The materials was presented in such a way that everything made sense and was integrated. This can be hard to achieve with online classes, so it was very well organized and thought out!"
" A fabulous challenge and so skillfully done that others relatively new to their study/discovery of CVI will have no trouble learning as they follow Matt's lead. "
