News and updates

Heading

Our Story
The CVI Austin Assessment Story Part 4: The app
How an idea was turned into an awesome iPad app, thanks to the digital design company Springload.

Heading

Image of Ella playing with the Austin Assessment App in her kitchen
Updates
Kiwi develops app to detect common visual impairment in kids
1News reports on the development of the Austin Assessment app, and 14-year-old Ella, who has CVI, shares her story.

Heading

Image of an antique metal carved kiwi bird
Updates
The Austin Assessment website is live! What this means to me
Nicola introduces the Austin Assessment website, developed to support a screening tool for CVI she has been developing.

Heading

Young Nichola about to dive into a swimming pool in a swimming competition
Our Story
The CVI Austin Assessment Story Part 1: Nicola
Watch and learn Nicola’s story, how she developed CVI, and the life experience that led her to create a world-first CVI screening tool.

Heading

Back and white image of Nichola staring at Austin who is playing with the Austin Assessment App on a tablet
Our Story
The CVI Austin Assessment Story Part 2: Austin
Meet Austin, the boy who inspired the creation of the Austin Assessment.

Heading

A screenshot from the prototype of the Austin Assessment. The cards are typical playing cards rather than the image cards developed for the game.
Our Story
The CVI Austin Assessment Story Part 3: Testing the theory
After creating the Austin Assessment, Nicola set about testing the theory and producing robust research to support her claims.

Sign up for our newsletter

Thank you! We will be in touch soon.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.