低視能與大腦性視障 Low vision and CVI

“Was blind, but now I see”, could this be possible? In another sense, this is also a type of education and a type of work. When I was listening to the music Amazing Grace, I recalled the lyrics “Was blind, but now I see” and suddenly I related this to the work that I had participated in the past, which aimed at helping ‘blind’ students to see. Apart from medical treatment by ophthalmologists who could help some patients with eye diseases to resume their vision, my work in the past also had a similar experience. Twenty-five years ago, I started a job that was to teach some visually impaired students to make use of their residual vision. This kind of training is called ‘low vision training’. But how could people with visual impairment see? In fact, many people don't know about this: considerable number of people who are assessed as visually impaired or even blind are not living in a totally dark world. They have different levels of residual vision that could still

Chinese version:  https://lowvisionandcvi.blogspot.com/2016/12/natalie-barraga-christine-roman-lantzy.html Key words: innovative changes and development in the education for the visually impaired, origin and development of low vision training, assessment and training for cerebral visual impairment (CVI), Dr. Natalie Barraga, Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy. In Hong Kong, when people who are working with CVI children mention about cerebral visual impairment (CVI), would they think of the American educator Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy? According to Dr. Roman’s own explanation when she came to Hong Kong in the 2000s, she used to be an itinerary Orientation and Mobility teacher working with visually impaired students. Gradually, she started to notice that some students’ characteristics, behaviors, and performance were obviously different from other visually impaired students. She then worked with Dr. Lantzy and made in-depth studies in the area related to neuroscience. She star

Chinese version:  https://lowvisionandcvi.blogspot.com/2017/11/cvi.html Key points in this article: 1.It is difficult to have a clear and full understanding of the visual ability of children with CVI (cerebral visual impairment/ cortical visual impairment). 2.Visual problems are affected by a list of factors, how could we understand the visual problems of CVI children? If CVI children have multiple disabilities or severe intellectual disability, or severe physical disabilities, their means/modes of expressions might be restricted. As a result, they could not give the appropriate responses. In other words, no response or incorrect responses do not imply that they could not see, have no sensations, have low learning ability, could not think properly, have no memory, or no interest … 3.Imagination and memory are very important, but they need meaningful experiences to build up. 4.During teaching, training, therapies, and services, CVI children should establish relationsh