Educational Success 492 children + 1,476 family members: Our statewide Child Development Services helps children with vision loss or multiple disabilities, ages 0-6, maximize any vision they have and reduce developmental delays. 93% of children met at least 85% of their individual program goals in orientation and mobility, communication, socialization and self-help skills. 95% made…
Here’s What You Can Do Right Now Download our 6 step helpful checklist if you have a child who’s blind, visually impaired or living with multiple disabilities. Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) or also referred to as Cerebral Visual Impairment is a decreased visual response due to a neurological problem affecting the visual part of the…
Retinopathy of prematurity or ROP for Short is an eye disorder caused by abnormal blood vessel growth in the light sensitive part of the eyes (retina) of premature babies, born 37 weeks early and weighing less than 3 lbs. This is why it is imparative that any child born before 32 weeks should be checked…
Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) is a congenital disorder characterized by underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of the optic nerves. According to National Organization for Rare Disorders; “Children with ONH may have brain malformations and pituitary problems … Abnormalities of structures of the brain may include hypoplasia of the corpus callosum (nerve fibers that connect the two hemispheres of…
