Meet Our Team

Christine Roman Lantzy has Bachelor’s Degrees in Elementary Education, and Visual Impairment.

She is a Certified Orientation & Mobility Specialist and has a Master’s Degree in Medically Fragile, High Risk Infants. Her Ph.D. focused on Cortical Visual Impairment and Infancy.

Christine Roman Lantzy was a teacher of the visually impaired in the public schools for 17 years. She worked as a research associate and an Assistant Professor in higher education for 17 years and was an infant developmental specialist associated with the NICU and Follow Up for 31 years at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital.

Christine Roman Lantzy is the Director of The Pediatric View Program at The Children’s Home & Lemieux Family Center in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and provides private CVI services through CVI Resources. Christine provides workshops and consultations through CVI Resources and has had the honor to be invited to all parts of The United States and many countries outside The U.S. She is the author of Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention (2007, Second Ed. 2018, Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles, 2019) author of O&M chapters in Foundations of Orientation & Mobility, and co- author of An Approach to Sensory Balance (2021).

Jonathan is a Certified Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and a Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist.

He has worked in general and special education classrooms across the United States, and U.S. Territories, and specializes in providing visual access for children with cortical visual impairment. In 2017, he established a vision intervention program for children with CVI in Dubai, UAE, providing assessment and training to families, teachers, and therapists in the region.

At Pediatric VIEW, Jonathan works to support educational teams to learn more about appropriate approaches to educating students with CVI, including developing CVI-friendly environments and activities, and modifying instructional strategies.

Jonathan has presented at conferences internationally, and developed trainings on CVI across a broad range of topics. He is a board member of the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society, and he holds a Master’s of Education in Vision Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald, MS, MEd is a CTVI and a Pediatric VIEW Practitioner. She has devoted her career to providing assessment, instruction and support to individuals with CVI, their families and their teams. She has enjoyed working with students in a variety of settings, including the classroom, itinerant/outreach models, and through home-based services. She serves as Co-President of the Board of Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society and is a Perkins-Roman CVI Range Endorsee.

Before coming to The Children’s Home, Francesca was the Director of the Miami Lighthouse CVI Collaborative Center, where she initiated the model providing assessment, educational planning, parent education, professional development and support for teams working with children with CVI.

She has particular interest in building strong literacy foundations, designing meaningful daily routines and social experiences, and creating appropriate and fair access to all areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum for children with CVI.

Jonathan Hooper, M.Ed. Pediatric VIEW PractitionerJonathan Hooper has over a decade of experience working with learners who have visual impairments, including cortical visual impairment (CVI), blindness, low vision, deafblindness, and learners with complex needs. Although he began his career as a reading teacher, he has taught in specialized schools for the blind, public and private schools, early intervention programs, and general education classrooms. After teaching in New York City Public Schools for 12 years, he joined Pediatric VIEW at the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh, where he works as part of Christine Roman’s team. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he has published research in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and Exceptional Children on developing evidence-based strategies for Braille instruction and the use of tangible symbols as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). He is passionate that students with visual impairments receive equitable and accessible educational experiences.