BOSTON (WWLP) - Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common cause of childhood blindness, but it is often left undiagnosed. A State House awareness day set the groundwork for changing that.

CVI is essentially a disconnect between the brain and the eyes and affects up to 1 in 30 children. Children with CVI have vision problems that are not related to their eyes, but rather due to damage to parts of the brain that process vision.

Those with CVI have difficulty seeing faces, sensitivity to light, and difficulty focusing on and understanding visual scenes, but with intervention, they are often able to better process what they are seeing.

"The brain is always trying to find pathways to do stuff, to learn more. And if the pathway to translating what those cones and rods are t

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