Meet Our Pediatric VIEW Team

Dr. Roman-Lantzy, Chief of Pediatric VIEW

Christine Roman-Lantzy, PhD, was raised in Michigan and received degrees in both Elementary Education and Special Education in Visual Impairment at Michigan State University. She worked as an itinerant teacher of the visually impaired in the greater Pittsburgh, PA area for 17 years prior to becoming a Research Assistant in the Vision Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pitt, she completed studies in Orientation & Mobility and received a master’s degree in Medically Fragile/High-Risk Infants. Her doctoral studies were also completed at Pitt. Her dissertation, Validation of an Interview Instrument to Identify Behaviors Characteristic of Cortical Visual Impairment in Infants, revealed that caregivers of infants can reliably report regarding the presence or absence of the characteristics of CVI

Christine is a former Project Leader of the CVI Project at The American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, KY. She has lectured extensively regarding the CVI educational materials she has developed She is a nationally renowned researcher and author with published resources including: The CVI Range, an assessment of functional vision, and The CVI Resolution Chart & CVI/O&M Resolution Chart, used to plot and monitor progress. She is also the author of Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention and Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles