What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study found that more than one in four U.S. adults aged 71 years and older are visually impaired, with ...

Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.

About 12 million Americans over the age of 40 are blind or visually impaired, according to the CDC. Because of the variety of visual impairments that exist, it’s difficult to generalize about the ...

A quality improvement study found that severe visual impairment was affected by various social determinants of health, including low socioeconomic status, race, and educational level. There are 32 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients can get frustrated when personal experience does not match objective measurements. Self-reported visual ...

A recent study highlights the range of uncomfortable situations people living with blindness or visual impairment encounter due to interpersonal communication challenges, and outlines strategies ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — David Schwarte, an assistive technology specialist on the Innovative Learning Team at Purdue University, knows what it is like to learn in a classroom when challenged with a ...

A room used for sleep and audio studies at the Unit for Visually Impaired People. On a hill overlooking a small airport whose runway stretches into the Ligurian Sea sits the Unit for Visually Impaired ...

Unlike other vision impairments, CVI stems from an injury to the visual centers of the brain that affects how it communicates with the eyes. People with CVI usually have healthy eyes but have trouble ...