Fellow’s Profile
Sarah Hovington
Fellow’s Profile
Sarah Hovington
Cerebral Vision Impairment (CVI) in Children and Young People
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Leading the change so Cerebral Vision Impairment (CVI) in children is understood more widely.
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Fellowship year
2023
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Biography
I am an advisory teacher for vision impairment (ATVI). My Fellowship is to research cerebral vision impairment (CVI) in children and young people. CVI is a brain-based vision impairment which until recently was thought to be rare. However, new research has revealed that CVI affects one child in a class of 30.
In my role as an ATVI, I have a significant number of children on my caseload who have a diagnosis of CVI. I plan to visit the CVI Centre at the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. As the Perkins Institute is a school, my research project will be enhanced by meeting and talking to other school professionals, observing children who have a CVI diagnosis, observing the specialist CVI assessments and the individualised intervention programmes, and day-to-day classroom practice.
I plan to share this most current CVI knowledge with parents and carers, school staff and sensory services. In a sense, to lead the change so that CVI is understood more widely.
Every child with CVI, no matter where they live or how their CVI manifests, has a right to early diagnosis, effective vision services and accessible educational programmes.
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Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.