Cincinnati Children's Vision
Rehabilitation Program
Kelly E. Lusk, Ph.D., CLVT
kelly.lusk@alumni.vanderbilt.edu
The Cincinnati Children's Vision Rehabilitation Program (CCVRP) is an interdisciplinary pediatric low vision service delivery model that incorporates ophthalmology care, clinical low vision
evaluations, educational recommendations, and
follow-ups to provide a full continuum of care for
patients with low vision who are ages 2-21 and
their families. Based at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Terry Schwartz, M.D., and
Rebecca Coakley, M.A., CLVT started the program in 2011, and later recruited Kelly Lusk,
Ph.D., CLVT to design a research agenda and assist in securing further internal and external funding. Dr. Schwartz and Ms. Coakley hail from West
Virginia where they have directed the Children's
Vision Rehabilitation Program (CVRP) for the
past 16 years. Dr. Lusk previously worked at Vanderbilt University with the Tennessee project, Providing Access to the Visual Environment (Project
PAVE). CCVRP is modeled primarily after CVRP
in West Virginia with additional elements, such as
research, from Project PAVE in Tennessee.
Along with the primary program, CCVRP
also runs a related project devoted to children
who have cortical vision impairment (CVI) and a
physical disability, such as cerebral palsy. This
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