Cortical Visual Impairment

The first three years of a child’s life are when the brain is most capable of forming and reorganizing neural connections. For children with cortical visual impairment, this window represents the greatest opportunity to support visual development — and that means early intervention for CVI is not something to wait on. The sooner a child…

Children with cortical visual impairment can learn. They can participate, make progress, and thrive in school settings. What they need is a visual environment designed to work with their brain rather than against it. For most students with CVI, the classroom as it is typically set up — busy walls, fluorescent lighting, dense printed materials,…

When a parent suspects something is different about the way their child sees the world, getting the right cortical visual impairment diagnosis requires knowing exactly where to look — and who to ask. That is not always straightforward. CVI is still widely underdiagnosed, and the standard eye exam that most children receive is not designed…

If your child has just been diagnosed with cortical visual impairment treatment options may feel overwhelming — or even uncertain. Here is the most important thing to understand right away: CVI can improve. The brain has a remarkable ability to form new visual pathways, and targeted interventions are designed to support exactly that process. Your…

Cortical visual impairment looks different from other vision problems — and that difference is exactly what makes it so often missed. The symptoms of CVI do not show up on a standard eye chart. They show up in daily life: in how your child reaches for a toy, responds to your face, navigates a room,…

Your child’s eyes look healthy. The eye doctor says everything checks out. But something is clearly different about how your child sees the world. If this sounds familiar, cortical visual impairment — CVI — may be the answer you’ve been searching for. CVI is a brain-based vision condition: the eyes function normally, but the brain…