Building Strategies Around CVI Phases

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Presented by Ellen Mazel, M.Ed.

This one-hour webinar presents a careful assessment around the 10 characteristics of CVI help staff and parents understand the unique learning needs for each CVI Phase. They can then build strategies, modifications to the environment, modifications to materials, and modifications to literacy that match the visual strengths and visual areas of need.

Understanding the child’s CVI Phase can assist in the creation of learning methodologies to benefit children’s expected visual improvement. Additional research and resources about CVI will be identified and discussed.

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Name the 10 characteristics of CVI and name one strategy for 9 of the characteristics.
  • State the goal for each Phase of CVI.
  • Name one way to fade each named strategy.

 

PRESENTER SUMMARY:
Ellen Cadigan Mazel, M.Ed. CTVI, Cortical Visual Impairment Advisor, works for Concord Area Special Education (CASE) Collaborative as a teacher of students with visual impairments, deafblindness and cortical visual impairment. In 2008, Ellen Mazel was named National Teacher of the Year for Children with Multiple Disabilities by the Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB).

After studying cortical visual impairment with Christine Roman-Lantzy for 6 years, she became interested in the most recent brain science information, how children with visual impairments build compensatory skills and how children's experiences relate to children's growth and development.

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