Parents are the most critical members of an early intervention team! PAIVI (Parents and Their Infants with Visual Impairments, 2nd Edition), written by Deborah Chen, Gail Calvello and Clare Taylor Friedman, is an updated version of the original Parents and Visually Impaired Infants (PAVII). This set of materials is designed to help parents and teachers…
Learn more about Cerebral Visual Impairment, the most common cause of visual impairment in children. This information is brought to you by Wayfinder’s Blind Babies Foundation program,which has been offering early intervention services to children with visual impairments and their families for 70 years. Follow #WayfinderRecommends and @wayfinderfamily on Twitter and Facebook during #BlindnessAwarenessMonth for…
Meet an Inspiring Wayfinder Family “Tatsiana is a joy,” says Pam Chapin, program director and vision impairment specialist with Wayfinder’s Blind Babies Foundation program in Northern California. “No one can meet her without falling in love with her.” “I love Pam,” says Tatsiana, mother of Sofia, who was in our Blind Babies Foundation program for…
Meet Director of Transition Services Rob Schulenburg When Rob Schulenburg was born in the early 1970s, doctors quickly noticed his erratic eye movements. They assumed that this was a sign of multiple disabilities: total blindness, hearing loss and intellectual disability. The doctors suggested Rob’s parents give him up to the state; a woman was in…
