Christine Roman-Lantzy, PhD.
Pediatric VIEW Chief
Christine Roman Lantzy has Bachelor’s Degrees in Elementary Education, and Visual Impairment.
She is a Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist and has a Master’s Degree in Medically Fragile, High Risk Infants. Her Ph.D. focused on Cortical Visual Impairment and Infancy.
Christine Roman Lantzy was a teacher of the visually impaired in the public schools for 17 years. She worked as a research associate and an Assistant Professor in higher education for 17 years and was an infant developmental specialist associated with the NICU and Follow Up for 31 years at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital.
Christine Roman Lantzy is the Chief of The Pediatric View Program at The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and provides private CVI services through CVI Resources. Christine provides workshops and consultations through CVI Resources and has had the honor to be invited to all parts of The United States and many countries outside The U.S. She is the author of Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention (2007, Second Ed. 2018, Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles, 2019) author of O&M chapters in Foundations of Orientation & Mobility, and co- author of An Approach to Sensory Balance (2021).
Jonathan Graves, M.Ed., CTVI, CATIS
Pediatric VIEW Practitioner
Jonathan is a Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and a Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist.
He has worked in general and special education classrooms across the United States, and U.S. Territories, and specializes in providing visual access for children with cortical visual impairment. In 2017, he established a vision intervention program for children with CVI in Dubai, UAE, providing assessment and training to families, teachers, and therapists in the region.
At Pediatric VIEW, Jonathan works to support educational teams to learn more about appropriate approaches to educating students with CVI, including developing CVI-friendly environments and activities, and modifying instructional strategies.
Jonathan has presented at conferences internationally, and developed trainings on CVI across a broad range of topics. He is a board member of the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society, and he holds a Master’s of Education in Vision Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
