CVI Friendly Slap Can Koozie

Make your child’s favorite cup, bottle, or toy stand out with a reflective slap wrap koozie

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Encouraging children with cortical visual impairment (CVI) to use their vision for functional purposes is often easier to do when the target is food!

You can make a bottle of milk or a cup of juice really stand out by using a CVI-friendly slap wrap cooler sleeve or koozie. Using a target like this helps your child to associate drinking with the color/shape of the target (the cup or bottle) and to develop reaching for and grasping behavior.

Supplies

• 1 slap wrap cooler sleeve, available from Amazon
• 1 piece of brightly colored reflective fabric in your child’s preferred color
• Scissors
• Permanent fabric adhesive
• A spreading stick, such as a popsicle stick
  

Instructions

• If you’re using a koozie that has a logo on it, peel off the logo to use as a pattern. Or just use the entire slap wrap koozie, flattened out, as a pattern.
  

• Cut the solid-colored, reflective fabric to the same size as your pattern. Remember to use a fabric in your child’s preferred color.
  

• Spread fabric glue on the top side of the koozie. Make sure you spread it thickly all the way to the edges. Use a popsicle stick or other spreader to help get the glue into all the bends.
  

• Position the pre-cut fabric on the top of the koozie. Press it down to make sure all the edges stick flat. Let this dry for a full 24 hours or until it is fully dry.
  

Adapted from “CVI Friendly Slap Can Koozie,” Strategy to See.