CVI

CVI or cerebral visual impairment is present when problems are identified of basal and/or ventral and/or dorsal visual functions. In children with CVI, the processing of visual information in the brain goes wrong. Broadly speaking, there are four types of problems. Not all problems need to occur to speak of CVI.

- Problems being able to focus attention on something in a large amount of visual information (busy situation in the playground, busy traffic situation,...).

- Problems with recognition and meaning-making based on visual information. Failure to recognise certain objects, situations or people can be very specific.

- Problems in acting spatially in crowded and moving environments.

- Problems focusing or dividing visual attention between different things. They also often have difficulty combining looking with another action (e.g. looking and listening).

We often see additional problems in children with CVI. Indeed, a brain injury, which underlies CVI, can also give rise to other problems such as motor impairment, intellectual disability, epilepsy, ASD or ADHD.