CHILDREN - Key Persons
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- Program Relations Manager
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- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team
- President of Medical Staff / Hospitalist
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- Director of Therapy Services
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- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team
- Director of Pediatric VIEW
- Director of the Pediatric View Program at the Children 's Home & Lemieux Family Center
- Pediatric VIEW Program Director
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).
Christine Roman-Lantzy, Ph.D. was raised in Michigan and received degrees in elementary education and special education/visual impairment from Michigan State University.
She worked as an itinerant teacher of the visually impaired in the greater Pittsburgh area for 17 years prior to becoming a research assistant in the Vision Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pitt, she completed studies in orientation and mobility and received a master's degree in medically fragile/high-risk infants.
Her doctoral studies were also completed at Pitt; her dissertation, Validation of an Interview Instrument to Identify Behaviors Characteristic of Cortical Visual Impairment in Infants, revealed that caregivers of infants can reliably report regarding the presence or absence of the characteristics of CVI.
Dr. Roman Lantzy is the director of the Pediatric VIEW Program at The Children's Home & Lemieux Family Center and a former project leader of the CVI Project at The American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, KY. She has lectured extensively regarding the CVI materials she has developed. These materials include: The CVI Range, an assessment of functional vision, and The CVI Resolution Chart & CVI/O&M Resolution Chart, used to plot and monitor progress. She is the author of Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention and Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles.
Christine provides more CVI resources for families at:
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- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team
- Director of Counseling and Family Support Services
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.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team
- CEO of the Children 's Home & Lemieux Family Center
Pam Keen became CEO of The Children's Home & Lemieux Family Center in 1993 and is credited with expanding and creating programs to best meet the needs of families through our programs: Adoption, Child's Way, Pediatric VIEW, Counseling, Family Centered Therapy Services and the Pediatric Specialty Hospital.
Some of her most notable accomplishments include lobbying for and founding Child's Way, the first licensed Pediatric Extended Care Center in the state of Pennsylvania for children with special needs. She was also instrumental in creating the first neonatal ventilator transition program, and developing a comprehensive sub-acute pediatric care continuum of services while establishing a low-cost, high-quality pediatric healthcare model.
Pam is known as a visionary for The Children's Home but credits much of its success to the dedicated staff, board, and the management team of women, including Pam.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Childrens Home Management Team