Welcome to VI-Labs.

tools · community · built by qtvIs

Enter the Lab
The field is changing fast.
The tools haven't kept up.
The language still isn't ours.
So we built our own lab.
// the workbench

Tools that work the way you do.

Designed in the field, tested in real classrooms, built around how QTVIs actually think and teach.

CVI Classroom Insights

Educational CVI assessment in language that parents and class teachers understand. Built on See It, Find It, Use It.

field_preference: lower_left
recognition: familiar_objects
complexity: moderate_support
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Target Generator

AI-powered IEP targets grounded in VI pedagogy. Not generic. Not clinical. Written for the classroom.

area: functional_vision
context: whole_class_literacy
target: "Locate familiar words..."
ready
Community Lab

A forum built by QTVIs, for QTVIs. Ask the questions you can't ask anywhere else — and get answers from people who do the job.

thread: "CVI assessment approaches"
replies: 14
from: practitioners
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VI Simulation

Real-time visual impairment simulation led by the QTVI. Show colleagues and parents what a child actually sees.

condition: nystagmus
acuity: 6_36
camera: live_feed
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// the community

You're not the only one who thinks this way.

A space for VI professionals who value collaboration over hierarchy, plain language over posturing, and doing over theorising.

Your people are here

Find others who share your challenges, your frustrations, and your drive to get it right.

Special school QTVIsPeripatetic teachersHab specialistsNewly qualifiedTAs & support staffAdvisory teachers
The forum

Real conversations. Real practice. No gatekeeping.

How do you adapt phonics for CVI learners?12
Transition planning — what actually works?8
Explaining CVI to a Year 3 class teacher23
// the ethos

What this lab runs on.

Practitioner-led

Built by QTVIs working in classrooms, not by people who left them.

Plain language

If a parent can't understand it, we haven't done our job.

No hierarchy

NQTs and 20-year veterans sit at the same table.

Tools, not talk

Everything here is built to be used on Monday morning.

The door's open.
We saved you a seat.

Join a growing community of VI professionals building something better, together.