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Welcome to Cirta Tooth's additional resources page, designed to enhance your understanding and clinical practice in the field of low vision and cerebral visual impairment. Discover articles, insights, and unpublished research by Cirta Tooth, tailored to supplement her formal publications and empower you with new knowledge.

Advancing knowledge and understanding goes hand-in-hand with evidence-based practice.

Cirta Tooth is committed to supporting patients and their families and carers through online assessments for CVI.

The purpose of a CVI assessment is is to be provided with information, advice and coping strategies regarding the visual difficulties.

Visit the CVI section of this website for more information, or contact Cirta Tooth to book an online CVI assessment.

If your practice is keen to get involved in CVI screening, please get in touch.

Cirta Tooth also offers Low Vision and CVI appointments in-person, based in Edinburgh.

Additional Resources

On this page, you can find more publications by Cirta Tooth in the first section.

The second section contains links to useful resources from other websites.

More publications by Cirta Tooth


Article Autism And Visual Perception Docx
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Helping parents of children with Autism understand the role of visual processing in developing social skills and how cerebral visual impairment (CVI) can lead to behaviours often observed in Autism

 

Author: Cirta Tooth

October 2025

Adapting Speech And Language Therapy To Support Children With A Vision Impairment Full Article Docx
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Advice for Speech and Language therapists or anyone supporting a child's language development when the child has impairment of vision or visual processing

 

Author: Cirta Tooth

June 2025

Visual Behavioural Characteristics Of Patients With Alzheimers Disease Docx
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Visual behavioural characteristics of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: Observations from psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and psychiatric support workers

 

This article was written following a lecture about Alzheimer's Disease by the author

 

Author: Cirta Tooth

April 2022

Useful resources from other websites

My Child has CVI: Handbook for parents of a young child with CVI

https://bartimeus.nl/english/cvi-educational-materials-bartimeus

This book contains practical tips for parents of children with CVI aged under 5 years.

 

Authors: Roza, M. Bakker, K. and Bals, I.

2017

Available online from Bartimeus


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-Custom application settings

-Computer accessibility tools, such as screen readers and magnification programs

-Custom formatting of documents and web pages to improve readability

 

Author: Eric van Heuvelen

2024

Available from Bartimeus


LOOK: Free CVI e-reader

 

This tool is developed to support people with CVI when they are using a computer. Different text presentations are available to facilitate reading from a screen.

 

Available online from CVI Scotland


Austin Assessment

 

The Austin Assessment is a validated screening tool for CVI, designed to be used as a first step. It is not a diagnosit tool, but is a quick and simple way to identify children who may have CVI-related visual difficulties. It is best used in combination with screening questions, which are then evaluated by a CVI specialist. For a full CVI screening assessment, contact Cirta Tooth: