Vision and the Brain: Understanding Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children

Cerebral visual impairment (also known as cortical visual impairment, or CVI) has become the most common cause of visual impairment in children in the United States and the developed world. Vision and the Brain is a unique and comprehensive sourcebook geared especially to professionals in the field of visual impairment, educators, and families who need to know more about the causes and types of CVI and the best practices for working with affected children. Expert contributors from many countries represent education, occupational therapy, orientation and mobility, ophthalmology, optometry, neuropsychology, psychology, and vision science, and include parents of children with CVI. The book provides an in-depth guide to current knowledge about brain-related vision loss in an accessible form to enable readers to recognize, understand, and assess the behavioral manifestations of damage to the visual brain and develop effective interventions based on identification of the spectrum of individual needs. Chapters are designed to help those working with children with CVI ascertain the nature and degree of visual impairment in each child, so that they can "see" and appreciate the world through the child's eyes and ensure that every child is served appropriately.

• Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention
• Cortical Visual Impairment Advanced Principles
• Strategy To See: Strategies for Students with Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment
• ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments
• Little Bear Sees: How Children with Cortical Visual Impairment Can Learn to See
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy for Students With Low Vision
• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• I-M-ABLE: Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education
• Foundations of Education: Volume I: History and Theory of Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments
• Foundations of Education: Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments