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Planning for a Sensory Friendly Fourth
Planning for a Sensory Friendly Fourth

The Fourth of July is a very exciting holiday filled with fireworks, friends, parades, and cookouts. For families with a visually impaired child, additional stress, steps and overwhelm can take away from the fun the holiday brings. To combat this stress and anxiety, we want to share some tips and considerations that families with Visually Impaired children can use this Fourth of July! 

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We are so proud of all of our graduates that had their final day of programming at CCVI! We look forward to watching all of your adventures in the future! Here’s a few photos of several of our graduates during our hallway celebration on the
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We’re here LIVE in Waldo’s Betty Raes Ice Cream for our Give Back Night! From now until 10 p.m you can eat ice cream and support CCVI students! Join us! 🍦🍦🍦
TOMORROW!! Join us at Betty Rae’s Ice Cream at the Waldo location to support children with visual impairments! From 5pm to 10pm, 10% of all purchases will go towards providing individualized therapies and specialized services for children!
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Hear what it's like to be a sighted peer at CCVI from a mother of two students! ⠀ ⠀ "We enrolled Harper in the Sighted Peer Program because we wanted our twins to have as typical an experience as possible — we wanted them to attend prescho