Vision Assessment

Charlie Claire had her functional vision assessment yesterday and I think it went better than we had expected! I am glad the assessment was this week since we all agree that in the past week everything seems to have started coming together with CC's progess.

The vision specialist (Donna) brought a box full of goodies that she used in order to see what C did with each one.  C seems to respond really well to the items that are shiny (go figure!) and that make noise...she really liked the slinky, mardi gras type beads and the space/thermal blanket!  Donna gave us a lot of good tips and ideas on how to use those items to help C Bear. Charlie Claire did really well with following items up and down and she did pretty well tracking side to side.  Sometimes there is a little bit of a lag and sometimes C looks away but if you just hang tight she comes back to it and continues to follow.  

We are going to go through the process of getting CC qualified with the Virginia Department of the Blind and Visually Impaired.  They will more than likely accept her based on her surgery (losing her left occipital lobe) but they will come out and do an assessment. If they do accept her she basically gets  access to a lot of "tools" that otherwise we wouldn't be available to her.

It was super good for Donna to come out and do this assessment so now we have a baseline to work with.

The other day we talked about C's tummy time progress, wanted to show you a picture of her from last night!