CVI and ART, (CVIART) SENSING THINGS DIFFERENTLY: DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF CEREBRAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT THROUGH MUSIC, DANCE AND ART COMPOSITION

Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Moray House School of Education

Abstract

This proposal provides a bridge between the academic theoretical work concerning Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI), the most common form of childhood visual impairment, and the understanding of CVI needed by parents, carers, and professionals in their supporting roles as well as the children themselves, through the interweaving of theory and the creative areas of art, music and dance. Estimates based on research suggest between 5-10% of the population of the UK may have one form of CVI or another, and on average one child in every class of thirty across all mainstream schools is likely to be affected. The main objective of the proposed fellowship is to provide for the very first time through music, dance and art, ways of explaining and understanding CVI, and more importantly understanding what a child with CVI may perceive.

One cannot learn from what one does not see. This obvious statement underpins the necessity of ensuring access to all aspects of life that bring about learning, recognizing that learning during childhood is the most fundamental element of human development. Classical approaches to learning tend to be organized and structured, yet we all know that what we learned when we were happy, engaged and motivated stands out as being the most pivotal of moments of our childhood. So how can children with cerebral visual impairment be engaged in this way? The answer to this question rests upon two fundamental concepts: Access, and engagement.

Access is brought about by ensuring that for each individual person with cerebral visual impairment every element of what is communicated and engaged with can actually be perceived, appreciated and understood.

Engagement results from creating compelling visual aspects, combined with creativity and originality

These concepts will help them to understand their world and how it looks different to ours, even when the detail of the picture we are both looking at, may be the same. Understanding CVI and the impact it has on a child will lead to greater support by parents and professionals, but explaining CVI is difficult, because it is a truly invisible disability, invisible even to the child, for visual information is processed in the non-conscious parts of the brain. Each child with CVI perceives their world differently, and CVI is typically dynamic, so their visual world can alter significantly, from moment to moment, from one of lucidity and happiness to one of being overwhelmed and terrified. The arts have been successfully used as a teaching approach where, for many reasons, traditional learning may be challenging for a child. This fellowship goes a step further, to explain through artistic interpretations the alternative ways the world is experienced for children with CVI. This has the potential to open up new ways in which artists can use their expertise, skills and passion to reach enormous numbers of children, but more importantly by taking forward these fundamental steps and showing others how this can be brought about by using materials carefully matched to be accessible to the profoundly and moderately affected children, the benefits that could accrue internationally could be revolutionary.

In order to reach the community of children and adults with CVI, I will work closely with CVI Scotland, a charity that was created to support parents and carers, and children and adults with CVI. Since the website's launch in 2017, cviscotland.org has registered over 16,500 UK users, and is approaching 60,000 users world wide, from 160 countries (source Google Analytics). Scotland users (5,500) accounts for 33% of all UK users. The website has a resources section where salient information from other organisations is allowed to be disseminated, and the charity has agreed to support me with this project. I am an advisor to CVI Scotland and regularly review content and support their projects. I also have a wide network of personal contacts (formal and informal).
 
Title Alfie Fox photographs 
Description Alfie is a young artist and film maker who has a CVI, he uses his work to give an audience an impression of his visual world and the difficulties he has in navigating it. For the CVI Art project Alfies work was made into a video showcase to be viewed as part of the online event held on the 26th November 2021. His work is now hosted on the CVI Scotland website. Alfie uses art as a way of exploring perceptual difficulties his CVI presents him with. This work is about entrances, showing the cause of difficulties crossing thresholds, for example because it is not clear where a doorway starts and ends. The film hosted on CVI Scotland comprises 6 black and white photographs of doorways and thresholds between spaces. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Alfie Fox is a creative young filmmaker and photographer who has a cerebral visual impairment. Through the medium of film he shares how he experiences the world. Alfie's films provide first hand accounts of the challenges of living with CVI, including how depth and movement perception difficulties affect everyday activities. His work allows an audience to enter Alfie's visual world to get a unique insight into an alternative world, as such it is an important visual addition giving an aesthetic understanding of a complex visual disability. This is what Alfies says of his work: I have tried to give an impression of a doorway. It is difficult to describe how I see. I do not know where a doorway starts and ends. I feel I am going to crash into the wall. I shrug my shoulders and move sideways to get through. I like someone to walk in front of me to see if they can do it without getting stuck or I use my cane to judge the width. The pictures are over laid to give an impression of not knowing where the frame is. I needed someone to describe the frames in my pictures to me, and I have had to explain how I see doorways so I can get the right image. I do not see double. I do not see 3D so if there are steps I can't tell they are steps unless I look at the side to see the zig zag. I learnt steps were zig zag by moving my foot across and down and back. I learnt that shape from my feet 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=59
 
Title CVI ART Exhibition 
Description On November 26th online, CVIART hosted its main exhibition. This composed of entries from Dr Chis Bailey WHO Arts and Health Lead. Professor Gordon Dutton, Professor Rachel Pilling, Professor Cathy Williams, Professor John Ravenscroft. The Exhibition also showed for the first time the three unique pieces of art. The music score by David Wallace, The Dance composition lead by Dr Wendy Timmons, and the Video piece by Dr Stephen Hollingsworth. In addition there were three artists with CVI who also showed for the first time their artworks specifically for this exhibition. They are Kenny Cowle, Alfie Fox and Willy Gilder. The exhibition also showed a conversation with Professor Ravenscroft and Marji McWee who is an adult with CVI. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact From the online Exhibition were were able to place each product onto website so that those that could not make it could watch at a later date. Over a thousand views have been seen of the website. 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?cat_id=80
 
Title CVI ART for FRESH 2022 
Description The Photos that were developed for the exhibition by Alfie Fox were submitted in the FRESH 2022 contest for emerging northern artists. Alfie was selected as a finalist. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact As a result of this contest, the photos were then exhibited at "Rurual Arts" Thirsk. 
URL https://www.facebook.com/freshemergingart/
 
Title Euryphaessa/"Wide-Shining" - Dance commission by Wendy Timmons 
Description This piece was commissioned as part of the CVI Art project to use performance and dance as an aesthetic register to communicate an experience of CVI to an audience. The dancers were asked to express their interpretation of the experience of being a child with CVI. Across different scenes we see the confusion as a dancer has to cope with multiple incoming demands, not knowing which way to turn, the world without faces, the peace and tranquillity of tents, the need for help, the fear, and in a beautiful finale, the freedom of open spaces. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This was the first time Dance has been used to communicate CVI to an audience. Euryphaessa "Wide-Shining" uses choreographic communication to express what a child with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) may perceive and feel as they interact with the world. Curated and directed by Dr Wendy Timmons, the choreography was informed collectively through lectures and workshops with experts in CVI and conversations with a child with CVI. The dance artists worked collaboratively in this creative process under the artistic direction of Marianella Desanti. Concepts such as shaping and demarking space are explored choreographically at the same time the dance artists explore the vulnerabilities and brain-body sensitivity exposed through CVI whilst expressing the tranquillity and personal happiness found in a colour or innocent space. Dance artists in alphabetical order: Megan Alder-Cox Liron Blajwajs Maverick Chai Marianella Desanti Yue Dou Annie Gaddis Yulu Hou Yang Joy Hanyu Li Jai McKenzie Nicola Scholefield Yu Shu Holly Stidolph Wendy Yaxin 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=3
 
Title Kaleidoscope1- Music Composition by Composer and Musician David Wallace 
Description Kaleidoscope1 is a piece of music of 7minutes 33 seconds length. Without our being aware of it, our brains brilliantly piece together all the information coming in from our senses, vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. What we can see and hear covers an enormous number of different perceptions, all of which are constantly changing yet all neatly sewn together. This process lets you know where you are, and where and what things are. What if your brain could not do this so well? What if your mind processed only one thing at a time? Composer David Wallace, listened to accounts from people with CVI and their carers, and created this extraordinary piece for CVI Art. Close your eyes to listen to it. Many with CVI can't look and listen at the same time. They have difficulties understanding and making sense of busy crowded places. Imagine the calm, tranquility and peace that quiet, and familiar places can bring. Dav 
Type Of Art Composition/Score 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This unique piece of music is the very first time that the sensory processing difficulties that accompany CVI have been interpreted in a musical score. Listening to the piece allows a listener to experience the fear and confusion that people with CVI can experience in busy environments where navigation can be difficult. David Wallace writes of this piece Kaleidoscope1 forms part of a projected triptych of works that aims to shed light on the lived experience of CVI. Through manipulating real world sounds the listener experiences a kaleidoscope of sound that is both familiar and disorientating. Throughout the work a buried Irish tune comes in and out of focus forming a musical thread that helps to give the music structure beyond mere noise. www.davidwallacecomposer.com 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=327
 
Title Kenny (Kendall) Cowle 
Description Kenny Cowle was unaware she had CVI until the age of 21 when she was in a life-drawing class and discovered her drawing had elements missing from everyone else in the room. Kenny refers to the 'ever-changing nature' of her vision and through her art creates pieces to 'challenge the perception of the viewer'. The work hosted on the CVI Scotland website comprises of a film showcase of Kenny's photographs. The showcase film comprises of 6 colour photographs and 4 black and white images. Kendall Cowle (Kenny) is a current PhD candidate within the school of Visual Communication at Birmingham City University and is being funded by Midlands4Cities. Her research focuses specifically on developing new understandings of Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) though the use of photography. In undertaking this research, Kenny hopes to raise awareness of CVI bringing it to the forefront of current research surrounding visual impairment, which is also part of her broader goal to address the multi-faceted nature of brain-based visual impairment and its relationship to the visual arts through future research. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Like all the CVI artists showcased on the CVI Scotland website Kenny's work allows a viewer a unique impression of what it must be like to experience the visual world with a CVI. This is valuable because explaining CVI can be complex and technical, as Kenny is an artist who also has a CVI her work uniquely can help foster understandings of the condition in an unthreatening way through an aesthetic register. Throughout her Masters Degree she used Fine Art as a way to explore the perceptual characteristics of her visual experiences peculiar to living with CVI, to generate an individual narrative. Kenny writes: "Through this I have been able to establish perceptual limitations which are distinctive of my individual visual experiences and those which are simply characteristic of human visual perception in general" Kenny Cowle was interviewed by the BBC together with Professor John Ravenscroft on 27th November 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59431466 She also did a video interview which was broadcast on Twitter to celebrate the International Day of Disabled People on the 3rd December 2021 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=328
 
Title Synchronicity 
Description For the CVI Art Exhibition two separate art pieces were created. Those by Alfie Fox an artist with cerebral visual impairment and by Music Composer David Wallace. After the exhibition a person with CVI email the team and said "if you actually combine these two pieces of art - you've got it" As such we created a new piece of art by putting these two pieces together. As we say on the website, the two pieces might not feel like they line up in terms of content to people who do not have CVI - what is a train doing inside a room? Those of us who do not have CVI need to stop thinking about how things align and make sense in our minds, and be open to an interpretation of the world experienced very differently. Recognising what is seen and what is heard requires consistent brain processes most take for granted, but many with CVI struggle with this, meaning not only are things not learnt or learning is delayed, but things are not always remembered in the right place, so a sound inside a room could very easily be mistaken for a train." Alfie Fox's film for CVI Art was exactly half the length of David Wallace's composition, so it plays at half speed. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact As yet unknown as just released early February 2022 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=339
 
Title The Tale Of The Curious Machanic by Professor Rachel Pilling 
Description This is an animated film by Professor Rachel Pilling. Rachel Pilling is an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) who has a special interest in ensuring children with learning support needs have easy access to regular and comprehensive eye and sight tests. She is one of the driving forces behind the successful initiative in England to conduct sight test in all special education schools. The Tale of the Curious Mechanic is a fun and simple story to understand some of the elements and issues associated with CVI. The below link is a talk that also includes information about Rachel Pilling's approaches to helping parents understand how CVI affects their child, and the inspiration behind the Tale of the Curious Mechanic. https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=336 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The Tale of the Curious Mechanic: "A simple way to describe CVI, using the driver and car to represent the different roles of the eye and the brain in vision. A model to encourage curiosity about both what a child sees and how a child sees." Some of the most complex areas of CVI are simply explained in this light and fun six-minute video. 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=294
 
Title We Slowly See cDa29 - video artwork by Steve Hollingsworth 
Description This video art work was produced as part of my Senior Research Fellowship at Edinburgh University engaged on the CVI Art project, it is the result of my research into cerebral visual impairment and aims to communicate aspects of CVI within a context of contemporary fine art. I also did a short talk which drew the online CVI ART event to a close, this was held on the 26th November 2021. The work Steve has made for this online exhibition is called 'We Slowly See cDa29' the cDa29 is the anonymised name of an individual with the rare condition of being a Tetrachromat (individuals with an extra cone, allowing perception of many more colours than normal tri-chromats) which Steve viewed as analogous to CVI where the diversity of human vision and seeing is incomprehensible to those of us with neurotypical vision. He was also influenced by the work and writing of American film maker, Stan Brakhage who was interested in the idea of an 'untutored eye' he writes: How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of green, how many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye. How aware of variations in heatwaves can that eye be. Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour' This is a film based on trying to understand the possible perceptions of someone with severe cerebral visual impairment. The film considers the dynamic perceptual flux between brain and eye and the sensory registers of light, colour and sound. The flow of visual information interpreted by those with damage to their occipital lobes results in fractured perceptions and can cause difficulties in visual guidance of movement and awareness of space and objects. An ability to process space and place and oneself within a given environment can also be impaired. There can be a profound and confusing mismatch between what the neurotypical experience visually and that of a person with CVI. This short film is an attempt to bridge this gap of understanding. The title comes from an idea of slowly seeing and absorbing details that might be overlooked, the cDa29 refers to an individual who is a tetrachromat, a person with 4 colour cones as opposed to the usual 3, resulting in an ability to see vastly more colours. I considered this analogous to CVI where we can never truly perceive as a CVI affected person might, but by acknowledging awareness of other subjective perceptual realities we can appreciate the richness of visual experience we all tend to take for granted. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This film was positively received and a survey regarding the online CVI Art event indicated that the film was successful in giving an impression of CVI as well as existing within a contemporary art context. This text accompanies the film on the CVI Scotland website: Steve Hollingsworth is an artist who has worked with adults and children with profound multiple disabilities and cerebral visual impairment for many years. His previous work has involved creating incredible installations to help the person connect, engage and communicate (see link to Steve's other work at the end of this page). This new work tunes in once again, considering what reality is like for the many people profoundly affected by CVI, who may have difficulties drifting between what is meaningful and meaningless. For CVI Art, Steve Hollingsworth was both a contributing artist and Senior Research Fellow, and he explains his interest and involvement in the additional video of his short talk taken from the CVI Art Exhibition. 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=333
 
Title Willy Gilder Art Work 
Description Willy Gilder has acquired CVI due to a form of dementia and uses art to process and share his visual experiences. This video showcase hosted on CVI Scotland and shown during the online event on the 26th November 2021 comprises of 2 water colours and 4 self portraits produced in mixed media. He is a former BBC journalist. Willy Gilder writes: I have a form of Alzheimers Disease that affects my parietal lobes and means I see things that aren't there - specifically a grey blob in my left field of vision that sometimes expands, and a sense that shiny pale reflective surfaces are covered in pale grey hair. As an artist not being able to trust what I see has been most disconcerting - and I'm worried that my eyesight might deteriorate further, which drives me on to record the world around me as fast and as furiously as I can. I've long been fascinated by the fact that artists see and interpret things in our own individual ways. I try through my drawing and painting to convey the world around me, and am interested in drawing the everyday; whether that be a person waiting for a bus or people at work. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact As well as the online event and work hosted on CVI Scotland, Willys work was further disseminated to the wider public by this BBC article on the 27th November 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59431466 "And so he's highlighting the salient features, the main features of what he sees when he's drawing." Professor John Ravenscroft in the article said: "He has a viewing of landscapes and of drawings that are very simplistic and very clear. They're not as detailed as we see in the visual world. "And so he's highlighting the salient features, the main features of what he sees when he's drawing." 
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?article=332
 
Title Working Together - a poem by Emeritus Professor Gordon Dutton regarding Cerebral Visual Impairment 
Description This poem written by eminent world expert in CVI, Gordon Dutton was re-presented to a wide audience as part of his talk on CVI for the CVi Art online event on 26th November 2021. Although presented before in 2018 in another CVI event, it is included here as it was curated as part of the online event to further bolster the importance of creativity as a key means of communicating difficult ideas, it was therefore ideally suited to being represented as part of this award and ideally suited the curatorial drive of the project. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact This was another creative way to explain CVI and how to help learning opportunities for people with a CVI by appreciating their perceptive limits and respecting and working to these limits in order to allow learning to take place. By locating this knowledge within the context of a poem renders this essential knowledge accessible and understandable whereas academic texts regarding CVI can sometimes be threatening or inaccessible to some audiences. 
URL https://soundcloud.com/helen-st-clair-tracy/gordon-duttons-cvi-poem-2018
 
Description One of the key findings of this award is that cerebral visual impairment is still misunderstood by many practitioners and parents alike. The post-exhibition survey identified that parents in particular found the exhibition extremely useful and explanatory. What has been particularly pleasing since the last submission is that artists with CVI have become more recognized and are now in a greater position to display their art works. This may not be as a direct response to the exhibition but it has allowed greater exposure of the diagnosis and therefore greater understanding. We have also seen the outcome of the exhibition be used in different environments such as teaching and learning conferences.
Exploitation Route The outcomes of this project are available to other artists with cerebral visual impairment and to those academics that are interested in the nature of representation and perception. People with cerebral visual impairment have a different way of perceiving the world and as the website contains all art, music, dance, and poems representations then these can be used by others.
Sectors Creative Economy,Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?cat_id=80
 
Description The art that was created as a direct consequence of this award and specifically appeared in the CVI ART Exhibition has now appeared in several other exhibitions across the country. By having artists with CVI present their art in this way, and giving these artists more publicity in the art world because their artwork has been acknowledged as significant and as art in itself we are able to disseminate more an awareness of cerebral visual impairment across more public arenas. This was not specifically planned within the project and we are delighted to see this. We have not evaluated the greater awareness of cerebral visual impairment among artists but the increase in website visits (an additional 10,000 views and 1000 videos since last year) (www.https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?cat_id=80) suggests that more awareness has been made. Another unintended outcome of the results of the project has been their use in conference presentations that are not directly related to CVI ART. Presentations have been made around the area of teaching and learning, using the video developed for the project and has also enabled a CVI artist to present about her CVI at medical conferences enabling medics to understand more the role of CVI and perception.
First Year Of Impact 2022
Sector Creative Economy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural
 
Description CVI Art and the Cerebral Visual Impairment Course EDUA11341 at the University of Edinburgh
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
 
Description BBC Interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Entitled- The visually-impaired artists sharing their world was an article by BBC journalist Ian Hamilton on 27th November 2021 and copied below:

A new online exhibition is aiming to raise awareness of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) and help support children with the condition.

CVI causes a visual world that can be confusing, cluttered and disorientating, however, it is significantly undiagnosed.

One recent study found it affects about one child in every mainstream class. Prof Ravenscroft, of the University of Edinburgh, said it can be misdiagnosed as autism or ADHD but when it is identified it can make a "world of difference" to children as it should enable them to access specialist support.

Visual artist Kendall Cowle's condition wasn't diagnosed until she was a 21-year-old art student.

She first sensed something was wrong during a life-drawing class.

Ms Cowle said: "I started to realise that from the people that stood next to me, I was drawing the life model with an arm.

"Clearly we couldn't see it from that angle because no other people around me could see this.

"So my drawings of the life model were weren't truly accurate because my brain kind of made bits up, if that makes sense".

Explaining her condition, she added: "It's difficult. People say to me 'Oh, you suffer from a vision loss'.

"And I kind of go, 'I don't actually, I never lost anything. It was never there to begin with.'" Ms Cowle, whose work features in the exhibition, also recalled how she would put people in the middle of her camera frame only to find out they were on the right or not even in the picture.

She said most of the images she creates are abstract and designed to challenge the perception of the viewer.

Ms Cowle added: "So sometimes, you know, you're looking at shapes and colours, you might not be quite sure what you're trying to look at.

"It can be interpreted however the viewer wants to but, also, that there's a very much a representational aspect of the ever-changing nature of my own vision."

Ms Cowle uses her camera for her work as it narrows her visual field and reduces clutter.

She said: "Sometimes I can walk around with a camera and I'm not actually taking any pictures."

Prof Ravenscroft said another artist, Alfie Fox, had interpreted his world through his black and white photographs featuring doorframes.

He explained: "It becomes this cluttered multi layered, visual scene. So instead of just seeing a very clear doorway, he sees lots of doorways that are that are layered over each other.

"That is different to how we would see the world." The professor of childhood visual impairment also championed the value of Willy Gilder's work.

The academic said: "He has a viewing of landscapes and of drawings that are very simplistic and very clear. They're not as detailed as we see in the visual world.

"And so he's highlighting the salient features, the main features of what he sees when he's drawing."
Willy Gilder work. Prof Ravenscroft said: "By combining that use of science by combining the use of art, I'm hoping to get that complexity across and for parents and professionals to understand just how difficult it is and interpreting exactly what that child with CVI sees."

The exhibition can be viewed on the CVI Scotland website or via the Scottish Sensory Centre website.

Prof John Ravenscroft said most people believe that what we see is dictated by the eyes.

But the director of the Scottish Sensory Centre told BBC Scotland: "Actually most of the brain or 40% of the brain is dedicated to visual processing.

"And so, if you have damage to the visual parts of the brain, that are dedicated towards vision and visual processing, then you're going to have damage in understanding and processing what you see."

The result is CVI, which is effectively visual impairment due to damage of the brain.

Children with the condition typically only focus on one thing and find it difficult to switch attention to something else.

Some also find it challenging to look and listen at the same time while another red flag is becoming overwhelmed in noisy situations, such as a supermarket.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59431466
 
Description CVI Scotland and CVI Art website Activity 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact After the online digital exhibition it was agreed within the project that a separate website would be developed to support each contribution to the project. This includes all artists with CVI work, the three commissioned artists, the WHO health and art Director's talk, the academic presentations as well as interviews with an adult with CVI and the important of CVI. As project lead I have received emails from members of the public who have watched the videos as well as invite to talk about CVI and Art and also invites to offer training to third party organisations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
URL https://cviscotland.org/mem_portal.php?cat_id=80
 
Description CVI Workshop: Stanmore House School 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This talk was about the importance of understanding Cerebral visual impairment to special teachers. From this the school and their teachers has expressed an interest in more training and professional development around cerebral visual impairment
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description CVI and Dance Pedagogy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Wendy Timmons used the CVI Art videos that she created for the initial exhibition for teaching purposes in her MSC Dance Pedagogy Course
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description FUSION 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Between 20-30 professionals, lecturers, and students were present to hear Dr Hollingsworth talk about CVI and Art at FUSION an Art Science Group at IASH at the University of Edinburgh 14th Nov 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Over 100 people were online to hear Dr Hollyingsworth talk at the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. ( 14th - 16th June). The talk was called Sensory Learning with PMLD children (people with profound and multiple learning disabilities) and relevance to a HE context. Videos were shown that were created as part of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learning-teaching-conference-2022/g5/
 
Description Presentation Teaching and Learning 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Dr Stephen Hollingsworth paper accepted by the Teaching and Learning Committee of the University for the 2022 conference. The paper is called 'Sensory Learning with PMLD children (people with profound and mutiple learning disability)" and builds upon some of the work conducted for this project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description School Visit - Hazelwood 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This talk was about the importance of understanding Cerebral visual impairment to special teachers. From this the school and their teachers has expressed an interest in more training and professional development around cerebral visual impairment
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop activity School Visit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This talk was about the importance of understanding Cerebral visual impairment to special teachers. From this the school and their teachers has expressed an interest in more training and professional development around cerebral visual impairment
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022