Hawe presents at NIH workshop on cerebral visual impairment

November 26, 2023
Rachel Hawe

Rachel Hawe, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the NeuroRehabilitation Across the Lifespan (NeuRAL) Laboratory, was invited to present at the Trans-NIH Workshop on Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) on November 17 in Bethesda, MD. The workshop was hosted by the National Eye Institute, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke. The goals of the workshop were to build awareness, promote consensus, and develop a registry. Dr. Hawe presented on the topic of cerebral palsy and cerebral visual impairment, specifically how to distinguish motor and visual impairments. Her presentation included work done in the NeuRAL Laboratory using gaze tracking with robotics to examine visual strategies during upper limb movements in typically developing children and children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.