[AERNet] AERNet Digest, Vol 11, Issue 5

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In a message dated 7/6/2007 8:38:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:47:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: lisa kleiman  <lisak07 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [AERNet] conferences
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Hello  all. Hope everyone had a good 4th of July. I know its usually slow 
this time  of year but I was wondering if anyone knew of any meetings or 
conferences  going on in the ny, nj, md (surrounding)  area in july or aug. that would 
 be good to attend. Thanks.

Lisa
Response to Lisa and to all TVIs,
 
To those of you who are looking for a good summer course (which also can be  
a winter course), here is one that is outstanding on cerebral visual  
impairment.  This is a web-based course that is loaded with excellent  information and 
is, at the same time, very interesting and entertaining (= is  hard to pull 
away from it).  I strongly suggest that ALL TVIs take  this course as there are 
more and more students being diagnosed with cerebral  visual impairment. CEUs 
are given - an added bonus!
 
Mary

CEREBRAL/CORTICAL  VISUAL IMPAIRMENT 
COURSE  ANNOUNCEMENT 




This course is a  re-creation of an all day workshop on CVI conducted by Dr. 
Gordon Dutton, a  pediatric ophthalmologist from Glasgow, Scotland, at the 
2006 AER  International Conference. The workshop entitled CVI - Damage to the 
Brain: A  Common Cause of Visual Impairment in Children, is an online course 
broken  into nine sections. The course provides participants an overview of the 
visual  system and how it works, disorders of vision due to damage to the brain, 
and  approaches to helping students with vision problems due to damage to the 
brain.  Dr. Dutton provides participants theory and practical application 
from his  expertise as a clinician working with children and their families 
having been  diagnosed with CVI. The course is broken into eight learning modules. 
The ninth  and last section is a question and answer forum for those who 
attended the  Salt Lake City  workshop. The intended audience for this course is 
any care provider working  with a child diagnosed, or suspected of having, 
cortical (cerebral) visual  impairment.

Participants successfully completing this course will be able  to: 

- Describe how the visual system works 
- Understand what can go  wrong with the visual system due to damage to the 
brain 
- Provide solutions  and interventions for children having or suspected of 
having CVI 
- Share  their knowledge and learning experiences on CVI with other  course 
participants  
by using the discussion board on  the course platform

For more information and to register for the course,  which costs $75, please 
go to: www.emeraldevents.net/diopp/ 






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