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Updates
Homegrown app helps spot common visual condition in children
Listen to our founder, Nicola McDowell being interviewed on RNZ (Radio New Zealand) about the Austin Assessment App.

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Listening...you said: We need the Austin Assessment for adults.
Newsletters
Newsletter 3 - Austin Assessment for Adults
In our third newsletter, Nicola shares how the Austin McDowell Foundation has listened to the feedback from users by prioritising extending the normative range database for the Austin Assessment so that it can be used by adults.

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Reviews
The benefit of using the Austin Assessment in a vision loss rehabilitation context
A practitioner who works in vision loss rehabilitation shares how valuable the Austin Assessment can be in this context.

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Newsletters
Newsletter 2 - Austin Assessment in Action
In our second newsletter, Nicola shares her research on supporting children with CVI related visual issues in mainstream schools. We also hear from a Mum in New Zealand who used the Austin Assessment with her son Oscar and the difference it made for them.

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Updates
Flipping the System - How the Austin Assessment helped to break down walls
A Mum shares their experience of using the Austin Assessment with their 13 year old son Oscar.

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Updates
Validating the Austin Assessment
Nicola's journey in getting the Austin Assessment screening tool officially validated.

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