The What’s the Complexity Framework: Designing a visually accessible school day for the child with Cortical Visual Impairment

Course description

Workshop Objectives:

• Learn how to use The What’s the Complexity Framework to guide the educational team in designing an accessible, appropriate school day for the child with CVI.
• Learn about the CVI Characteristics (Roman-Lantzy) in depth, with particular emphasis on complexity and its relationship to the other characteristics.
• Understand how the CVI Characteristics (Roman-Lantzy) manifest later in The Range, with an emphasis on late Phase II and Phase III.
• Describe how CVI affects behavior
• Understand the primary barriers to visual access for children with CVI.
• Describe how CVI affects access to literacy and communication.
• Guide the team in selecting appropriate visual learning and communication media
• Identify appropriate educational tasks for the child with CVI
• Determine appropriate learning environments for a child with CVI
• Determine the appropriate balance between the complexity levels of the environment and the task.

Intended Audience:  Parents, teachers of the visually impaired, orientation & mobility specialist, speech-language pathologists, OT, PT, classroom teachers, special educators or other service providers with a student who has Cortical Visual Impairment. 

Priorities will be given to families, educators or service providers serving students with Deafblindness.

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Registration may be cancelled up to 14 days prior to the event for a full refund. Cancellations received within 14 days of the event will not be refunded. No-show registrations will also not be refunded.

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