Description

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.

Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book more than met my expectations. I am acquainted with one of the editors and know she always produces quality products. The contents are terrific, and the authors of each chapter are well-chosen. I have followed some of the authors over many years and used their materials already — but to have so much information in one volume is terrific.

⭐Excellent comprehensive text for anyone wanting to truly understand the depth of NVI and/or CVI!

⭐The content of the book is outstanding–a “must have for anybody working with children with visual problems. However, the Kikndle version has no page numbers, and many of the tables and charts are hard to view, either because they are split between two pages or do not show up on certain computers. I recommend this book be bought in its hard copy format.

⭐Excellent resource. Would recommend for anyone that would like to read it.

⭐An excellent resource!! Sherri

⭐As a teacher of children with visual impairments, I have worked with many children who I had classified as having cortical visual impairments. However, through the information this book provides, I am now beginning to understand the wider complexity of the disability that the authors term as cerebral visual impairment. This book provides essential and valuable information that can be used by teachers, parents and other rehabilitation and habilitation specialists that support children with cerebral visual impairments. The book includes detailed explanation of the visual system and how it can be affected by damage to the brain, thorough assessment techniques to help establish diagnoses of cerebral visual impairment and strategies on how to overcome the disabling aspects of this condition. Throughout the book, the many contributing authors have provided real life examples with anecdotes from parents, adults and children who live with cerebral visual impairment. This book is essential reading for any professional working in the field of pediatrics.

⭐This book is an essential resource for all who wish to understand more about cerebral visual impairment in children. It provides a comprehensive guide, contributors being experts in many disciplines, whose skills may be a necessary requirement in order that affected children are able to achieve their potential and thrive. Of particular interest are contributions made by parents of children with cerebral visual impairment and also the views of one young man with the condition. This book is suitable for professionals and families alike and helps all to ‘see’ the world from the perspective of the affected child. It should be essential reading for all professionals involved in assessment of young children, not only those whose area of expertise is vision, in order that children with cerebral visual impairment are identified at the earliest opportunity and they and their families are able to quickly access appropriate support.

⭐I did get this book. My mistake. Great information. Thank you

⭐Muito bom o livro! Adorei rapidez da compra e qualidade do produto! Super recomendo! Farei novas compras a partir de agora!

⭐Brilliant just what was missing for all teachers of MDVI children

⭐brilliant book, brilliant lecturer