{"id":122,"date":"2014-12-04T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvi.aphtech.org\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:29","slug":"whats-new","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cvi.aphtech.org\/?page_id=122","title":{"rendered":"What’s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Joy Player joins the Tactile Graphic Image Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Students who use tactile communication symbols can now request their favorite personal music player\u2014The Joy Player. Requested by Cindy Corbett, a visual impairment and orientation and mobility specialist from Indiana, APH now offers STL files of the Joy Player button switches on the Tactile Graphic Image Library, enabling the consumer to 3-D print the button. Whether your student uses the symbol alone or mounted on a communication card, he or she can express a personal desire to listen to music in an appropriate way and expect a response. Tactile symbols are tools for teaching important communication and functional literacy skills.<\/h6>\n
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BBC Video on CVI:<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/cviscotland.org\/mem_portal.php?article=157<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Salient Features Collaborative developed Salient Features Dictionary<\/span><\/h4>\n

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About this\u00a0Salient Features Dictionary:<\/p>\n

The Salient Features Dictionary is based on the work and ideas of Christine Roman-Lantzy, Ph.D. Dr. Roman-Lantzy defines salient features as, \u201cthe defining elements that distinguish one target from another.\u201d (Roman-Lantzy, p204). \u201cThey are,\u201d she continues, \u201cthe key pieces of distinct information that facilitate\u00a0recognition of an image, object, environment, or person\u201d (Roman-Lantzy,\u00a0 2018).<\/p>\n

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Word Bubbling<\/h5>\n
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This tool is designed to assist in literacy education for students with CVI. It is being developed under the guidance of Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy who originally developed the technique.<\/h5>\n

Note that this is an early testing version. The interface will improve before version 1 is released.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: This is being developed as an open source project by an employee of Google with Google’s permission but is not an official Google product.<\/p>\n

Roman Word Bubbling appspot.com – click here<\/a><\/h5>\n
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Welcome to Roman on CVI. I look forward to sharing directly with you my thoughts, perspectives and practices regarding Cortical Visual Impairment.<\/h5>\n

Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy<\/p>\n

CVI Resources\u00a0 \u00a0www.cviresources.com<\/p>\n

Youtube channel – click here<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Working together<\/h5>\n

A poem about CVI written and read by Gordon Dutton<\/p>\n

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Cortical Visual Impairment Advanced Principles<\/h5>\n
Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles<\/i>, the highly anticipated companion book to\u00a0Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention<\/i>, makes new strides in building knowledge about CVI. The book, a collaboration among experts in several disciplines, dives deeper into topics that are extensions of the original concepts.\u00a0CVI: Advanced Principles\u00a0<\/i>offers an in-depth examination of the needs of students and individuals with CVI in areas such as literacy, social skills, and O&M, while also addressing the demands of students with CVI and other disabilities, such as complex communication needs and hearing loss. The authors consider students with CVI in the context of their entire day to see how the tasks they perform, the interactions they have, and the environments they encounter can be evaluated and adapted to help them build their visual skills and experience success.<\/div>\n
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Christine Roman-Lantzy, editor<\/dd>\n
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Mini-Lite Box: Overlays<\/h5>\n
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Designed to provide the ability to build visual complexity by adding one overlay at a time, individualizing each child’s needs.<\/p>\n

The Mini-Lite Box Overlays are unique in that the parent or teacher may choose the level of visual complexity for each learner. Overlays can be used for instruction or assessment in color identification, shape identification, and counting. Individualize by adding layers for each student’s level of complexity<\/p>\n

Using color, light, and increasing levels of complexity, the Mini-Lite Box Overlays can be layered for many different purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CVI Book Builder Kit<\/h5>\n
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This book making kit is designed to create individualized books for children diagnosed with Cerebral\/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI).<\/p>\n

Children diagnosed with CVI frequently have difficulty in understanding objects, pictures, and letters presented against a complex background. CVI Book Builder provides materials for parents and teachers to build books specifically for their reader. The kit provides a variety of black pages and black binders to use as low complexity backgrounds against which to present familiar items, photos, and letters\/words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THE CVI Society – Changing Perceptions of Vision<\/span><\/h2>\n

Molly discusses her cerebral visual impairments<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kaleidoscope: The Cortical Visual Impairment Podcast<\/h3>\n
Testing. Are CVI Parents Out There? – The Marquardts – Episode 1<\/div>\n
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Association for Education and Rehabilitation\u00a0of the Blind and Visually Impaired<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

Great News!\u00a0The Neurological Visual Impairment Division is excited to announce that we have achieved permanent status within the Council of Divisions in AER<\/strong>. Thanks to all who have joined the NVID; we look forward to continue to learn and share knowledge with all of you working with those birth through adulthood living with a brain based visual impairment.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Stay tuned for the election ballot in the next weeks that will put officers in place to kick off their term at the International Conference in Reno.<\/h4>\n
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TEACH<\/span>CVI<\/span> Literacy Profile:<\/h2>\n

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a practical tool to be used by teachers and other professionals in order to collect information about the functional vision and literacy of children with CVI.\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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NVID Announcements\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The Neurological Vision Impairment Division is excited to release the first newsletter of NVID. You are in for a treat! Please click below to view the NVID Newsletter.<\/h3>\n

NVID Newsletter 2018 – Word<\/a>
\nNVID Newsletter 2018 – PDF<\/a><\/h3>\n

The version of the newsletter is available for individuals with neurological visual impairment available at https:\/\/aerbvi.org\/about\/divisions\/neurological-visual-impairment\/<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Parents\/caregivers of children with cerebral visual impairment Survey – Please help!<\/h5>\n
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Hello, my name is Nicola McDowell and I am from New Zealand. I am a vision education\/rehabilitation specialist for children who are blind or who have low vision and I am currently completing a PhD in Education. My research is focused on establishing effective ways to better support children with cerebral visual impairment (CVI).<\/span><\/p>\n

One part of this research is a survey for\u00a0parents\/caregivers of children with CVI. The focus of this survey is to better understand how you\u00a0obtain information on CVI in general and how you use this information to be able to help your child as well as you can.\u00a0Your answers to the questions in this survey will help me to do this.<\/p>\n

This survey is open to parents\/caregivers from any country around the world, who have a child of any age with CVI. Your child does not have to be officially diagnosed with CVI, but\u00a0they must have\u00a0visual difficulties that are\u00a0consistent with this condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/CVIparentssurvey<\/a><\/h5>\n
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CVI Scotland\u2019s Learning Spectrum \u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n

We have created a simple tool to help you work out how good the learning opportunities are for the person with CVI, and where they could be made better.\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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2018 American Conference on Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment June 29-30, 2018 in Omaha, NE, USA.<\/h5>\n

The course will feature renowned experts, a two full-day curriculum, and it will be LIVE TELECAST for those unable to attend in person.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CEU applications will be submitted to COPE, AOTA, NPTA and ACVREP and for AMA PRA Category ITM <\/sup><\/em>credits.\u00a0 Additional updates on available credits will be provided throughout the spring.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pathstoliteracy.org\/events\/american-conference-pediatric-cortical-visual-impairment-cvi<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cortical Visual Impairment<\/span>: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention, 2nd Edition (Paperback)<\/span><\/h4>\n

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By\u00a0Christine Roman-Lantzy<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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CVI SCOTLAND<\/span><\/h4>\n

Dr. Amanda Lueck guest blog<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Increasing Complexity Pegboard<\/a><\/h4>\n

Children diagnosed with CVI frequently have difficulty in understanding objects presented in a complex array. The Increasing Complexity Pegboard provides materials for parents and teachers to create background templates specifically for their learners.<\/p>\n

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International AERBVI conference flyer:<\/h4>\n

https:\/\/aerbvi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AER-Int.Conf_.2018-Ad.Reno_.pdf\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Modify on the Fly<\/strong> for CVI\u00a0<\/span> posted by\u00a0Yvonne Locke<\/a>\u00a0on Jan 15, 2018<\/h5>\n

http:\/\/www.pathstoliteracy.org\/resources\/modify-fly-cvi<\/a><\/p>\n

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Increasing Complexity Pegboard\u00a0\u00a0click here<\/a><\/h4>\n

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A manipulative developed for children with visual impairments, including those diagnosed with CVI.<\/p>\n

The Increasing Complexity Pegboard was created for children with visual impairments, including those diagnosed with Cerebral\/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). Paired with diagnostic teaching strategies, the pegboard set helps to determine and support the child’s color, lighting, movement, and complexity needs.<\/p>\n

Children diagnosed with CVI frequently have difficulty in understanding objects presented in a complex array. The Increasing Complexity Pegboard provides materials for parents and teachers to create background templates specifically for their learner.<\/p>\n

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Nicola McDowell – My CVI journey
\nWeAreVisibility, Published on YouTube Sep 5, 2017<\/h4>\n

Nicola McDowell explains how she has coped with CVI throughout her life and the challenges she has experienced and overcome<\/p>\n

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CVI SCOTLAND<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Look is a reading tool, with multiple functions and settings, designed to make reading easier for people with CVI.<\/p>\n

Look can be used for all levels of reader, from a non-reader learning to read, to an experienced reader wanting specific settings to read faster and more comfortably.<\/p>\n

Look enables the user to insert any text (up to 10,000 words), and adjust the settings, to read a single word on an uncluttered screen, and either change each word manually, or set the speed for Look to present the words automatically at your comfortable reading speed.<\/p>\n

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CVI Hub<\/h1>\n

Perkins has a wide range of CVI resources for educators, from webinars to self-paced tutorials to online and onsite classes.<\/h2>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0TEACHCVI\u00a0 \u00a0click here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
TEACHCVI is a partnership that aims\u00a0to create collaborative tools for teachers and health care professionals. It is meant to build a bridge between teachers\/educators and health care professionals so they can work together to benefit the target group: children with\u00a0CVI.<\/h5>\n
Aims of the project:<\/h6>\n