STRATEGIES & CVI WEBINAR

Building Strategies Around CVI Phases

Title: Building Strategies Around CVI Phases  Presenter: Ellen Mazel, M.Ed. CTVI, When: Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Click here to download this webinar to your calendar.   Building Strategies Around CVI Phases Building Strategies Around CVI Phases webinar with Ellen Mazel.

In case you missed our last webinar on iExploration: Using an iPad for Vision Stimulation, you can watch it here. Learn more about how you can earn credit for this webinar or watch other webinars, visit us at www.perkins.org/resources/webinars/. Building Strategies Around CVI Phases: Careful assessment around the 10 characteristics of CVI help staff and parents understand the unique learning needs for each CVI Phase. They can then build strategies, modifications to the environment, modifications to materials, and modifications to literacy that match the visual strengths and visual areas of need. Understanding the child’s CVI Phase can assist in the creation of learning methodologies to benefit children’s expected visual improvement. Additional research and resources about CVI will be identified and discussed. Participants will learn to: Name the 10 characteristics of CVI and name one strategy for 9 of the characteristics. State the goal for each Phase of CVI. Name one way to fade each named strategy. Presenter Summary: Ellen Cadigan Mazel, M.Ed. CTVI, Cortical Visual Impairment Advisor, works for Concord Area Special Education (CASE) Collaborative as a teacher of students with visual impairments, deafblindness and cortical visual impairment. In 2008, Ellen Mazel was named National Teacher of the Year for Children with Multiple Disabilities by the Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB). After studying cortical visual impairment with Christine Roman-Lantzy for 6 years, she became interested in the most recent brain science information, how children with visual impairments build compensatory skills and how children's experiences relate to children's growth and development.

CASH FOR YOUR EARLY INTERVENTION EXPERIENCES!!! HURRY! DEADLINE JUNE 26

Research Opportunity- Parents As Detailers for "Learn the Signs. Act Early"

Center for Leadership in Disability is partnering with Parent to Parent of Georgia and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs on “Parents as Detailers for Learn the Signs. Act Early.” The goal for this project is to increase awareness of the importance of early screening and referral, provide educational materials for distribution to families, and improve understanding of Babies Can’t Wait – Georgia’s early intervention system.

Each Parent Detailer will present to a minimum of five (5) pediatric practices. Detailers will schedule their own office visits and follow up phone calls with support of the Project Coordinator. Detailers will receive $100 per office visit (5 visits=$500), $200 for completing training requirements, plus per mileage reimbursement for travel. All obligations for this position will be completed by November 1, 2013.

The Project Team is seeking parents of children with disabilities who are willing to tell their “early intervention story” to pediatricians and/or family practitioners in their area. After being trained, Parent Detailers will visit physicians’ offices, share their story, and hand deliver copies of the Milestone Moments booklets for the clinic staff to distribute to families.

Would you like to serve as a Parent Detailer?
Applications being accepted through June 26th only!
Acceptance notifications by July 1st. Position will end by November 2013.

A qualified applicant will:

•  be a parent of a child with autism or related developmental disability;
•  have a compelling Early Intervention story;
•  have experience speaking to groups;
•  have demonstrated good written and oral communication skills; and
•  be available to attend a one day training on July 12 in Atlanta, GA.

For more information, contact Georgia Fruechtenicht at georgia@p2pga.org or 678-736-7337.