Full Name
Christine Sauvé Guindon
Position/Title
consultante en surdicécité
Organization/Company
Consortium Centre Jules-Léger
Speaker Bio
Christine Sauvé Guindon is a lifelong learner who has dedicated her teaching career to deafblindness. She has worked in a deafblind classroom, and she is currently an educational consultant at Consortium Centre Jules-Léger. She also developed and teaches (in French!) the Deafblind Additional Qualification three-part course at the Faculty of Education at Ottawa University. Over the years, she has trained under Jan van Dijk to refine her approach in child guided strategies and assessment. She has completed the Supervisor Seminar on the Tactile Working Memory Scale. Being passionate about brain-based sensory losses, she learnt everything she could regarding Cortical / Cerebral Visual Impairment and obtained the Perkins-Roman CVI Endorsement. She also has an interest in understanding the link between CVI and Central Auditory Processing Disorder, as well as between CVI and tactile signing. She has been published twice in the Deafblind International Review and presented at various symposiums and conferences.
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