Children with CVI, complex speech and physical disabilities who use AAC
The significance of support walkers for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI), complex speech and physical needs: The Bridge School experience.
Wright-Ott, C, (2021). The significance of support walkers for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI), complex speech and physical needs: The Bridge School experience. Closing the Gap, Inc. 14-27.
Collaborating authors: Sarah Blackstone, The Bridge School and Harvey Pressman, Central Coast Children’s Foundation
Purpose: This paper provides examples of benefits that children with CVI who use AAC experience when using hands-free support walkers. It describes tasks they are able to accomplish in walkers they are unable to do in their wheelchairs, describes increases in their participation in school activities (e.g, visually directed reach, moving close to objects and peers, orienting to sounds and activities, discovering preferred activities, vocalizing while moving and interacting with peers.) and provides examples of children using a variety of walkers.
Communication Matters
Pressman, H. (November, 2021). The Bridge School Breaks New Ground – Yet Again. Communication Matters, 20, 35:3.