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Cortical visual impariment or CVI, is a commonly co-occuring diagnosis amongst children with brain injury and neurological impairment. While recognized by our interdisciplinry team, it was often not explixtly addressed in our care plans. Through collaboration with special education colleagues and experts working at Perkins School for the Blind, I sought to acquire greater knowledge in CVI practices. The following inservice reflects the first phase of establishing and implementing CVI program development at our clinic. This inservice was designed to educate an interdisciplinary team comprising of speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists on ways to best integrate information into clinical practice through simple and effective CVI supports.

During the second phase of CVI program development, I conducted a needs assessment. Integrating the knowledge I had acquired from CVI experts, this needs assessment served to identify and analyze gaps in our current clinical practice. Through this needs assessment, I was able to justify funding for program development to both internal and external sources.

After educting myself and colleagues on CVI, I was able to utilize the needs assessment to obtain departmental budgeting for CVI materials. This artifact represents the third phase of the CVI program development, in which I designed and collaborated to assemble CVI kits for use in our clinic. These kits provide simple resources to facilitate all disciplines in adapting activities to support children across the CVI continuum.

Collectively, these artifacts represent the in depth process of program development from conception through culmination. Below I reflect upon my experiences in acquiring the knowledge, disseminating said knowledge, and utilamtely integrating the knowledge in a meaningful way to better support our clinical practices.