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VIDBE - Q Volume 62 Issue 4
Holli Luff
Holli Luff
TVI in Training
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
holli.luff@gmail.com
This past summer I had the opportunity to work with Alice, a nine - year - old girl
diagnosed with cerebral visual impairment (CVI) since birth. Children with CVI often have
other disabilities and learning delays in addition to their visual impairment and Alice was
no different. She was within phase 3, bu t had recently progressed to a total loss of vision.
When I started working with Alice, her mother informed me that Alice had not reached her
"educational plateau" and was still capable of comprehending and retaining information,
this was very exciting but I still did not know enough about CVI to know how important
that was. Alice did have some functional vision that we used to our advantage during
instruction. She was reading at a kindergarten level, but this did not affect her love of
learning and great s ense of humor.
Reading Program
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) requires a course for anyone at the
undergraduate or graduate level wishing to earn a teaching endorsement in elementary
(K - 6) or secondary (7 - 12) education and special education. This course has a practicum
experience in the Kit and Dick Schomker Reading Center. The university students use
explicit instructional strategies to provide tutoring two times per week to students from a
Working with CVI in Reading and Writing
