What’s the Complexity? Designing an Accessible School Day for Children with CVI Part One

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Description

Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of visual complexity, the fundamental challenge for most students with CVI, and how it impacts students in all phases. Participants will learn to use the What’s the Complexity? Framework to manage complexity and visual demands in an intentional, systematic way throughout the school day for children with CVI.

Outcomes of Presentation

Participants will be able to explain visual complexity in all of its forms and how it impacts students in each phase of CVI.
Participants will gain a toolbox of analogies and simulations for explaining CVI to educational teams.
Participants will be able to use the Environment and Task rating guides to evaluate the complexity of an activity.
Participants will be able to create an Individual Complexity Profile for a child with CVI.

This session is presented on May 5, 2022 by Matt Tietjen.

Contributors

Matt Tietjen

Matt Tietjen is an education consultant and teacher of students with visual impairments. Matt specializes in working with children who have CVI. He is the author of the What’s the Complexity Framework, published in CVI: Advanced Principles, edited by Christine Roman-Lantzy (2019). Matt also co-authored CVI Sensory Balance: An Approach to Learning Media Planning for Students with CVI, with Christine Roman-Lantzy, published by Perkins Press in 2020. Matt lectures internationally on the What’s the Complexity Framework, CVI Sensory Balance, and other related topics. He teaches a graduate course on the What’s the Complexity Framework through Fitchburg University and Perkins School for the Blind. He is also an instructor for UMASS Boston’s CVI graduate certificate program.