MaryAnne Roberto has been a teacher of the visually impaired since 1983. She has worked at Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, PA, as a classroom teacher in the Early Childhood Program, as well as the Early Intervention Program where she was a Teacher Mentor and an Early Intervention Specialist.
MaryAnne has provided early intervention vision services to infants in Bucks County, PA, for the past 11 years, and is a part of the county’s Early Intervention Evaluation Team for infants from birth to three.
MaryAnne is the owner of Envision CVI Consulting, contracting with local school districts to provide services for children with cortical visual impairment and consulting for families across the country. MaryAnne attended the PA CVI Mentorship Program (2010-2011) at Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children where she began working with children with CVI in earnest. Since that training, MaryAnne has implemented a two-year CVI training program at Overbrook School for the Blind and has conducted numerous pieces of training for Early Intervention programs, service coordinators, and evaluation teams. A frequent presenter, MaryAnne has traveled to conferences across the United States, Canada, and recently to Taiyuan, China, on behalf of Perkins International. MaryAnne has presented webinars for Perkins School for the Blind eLearning and is a course moderator for Perkins through their online eLearning program. MaryAnne presented at the American Conference Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment in Omaha, NE, in 2017 and 2018.
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