Evaluated were the vision characteristics (refractive errors, eye coordination problems, and eye pathology) of 511 students at the California School for the Deaf. (Author/LS)

Three papers by the president of the National Federation of the Blind are presented. The first, "A Definition of Blindness," examines definitions of blindness, asserting the advantages of a functional or sociological definition over a physical or medical definition. He cites harm in legal distinctions between partial and full blindness and between…

Based on a workshop on vision research issues in flight-training simulators held in June 1980, this report focuses on approaches for the conduct of research on what visual information is needed for simulation and how it can best be presented. An introduction gives an overview of the workshop and describes the contents of the report. Section 1…

Geoboards have been effectively used to teach geometric concepts to children in third and tenth grades at the Halifax School for the Blind. (LH)

Presented is the case history and interdisciplinary approach used with a partially sighted 8-year-old girl including vision training, large print instruction, and regular class placement. The viewpoints of the optometrist, the child's parents, the educational consultant, the principal, the regular classroom teacher, and a resource room teacher are…

The encoding processes of poor and average readers were compared in a short-term memory task. Since poor readers have difficulty in integrating audiovisual input, it was hypothesized that this pattern may be due to inadequate acoustic encoding. The results did not support the hypothesis. (Author/CS)

Evaluated was retinal functioning of 15 4-year-old children who had received phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice). (DB)

THE BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND ESSAYS CITED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ADJUSTMENT TO BLINDNESS WERE EXTRACTED FROM THREE PRIMARY SOURCES--(1) THE MAJOR REFERENCE DOCUMENTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR THE YEARS 1955 THROUGH 1966, (2) LITERATURE FROM THE FIELD OF WORK FOR THE BLIND, AND (3) STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON THE SUBJECT OF ADJUSTMENT TO BLINDNESS.…

A library for the blind is a good public library which deals in several media: Braille, tape, and large type. Such a library has the capability and dedication to provide each patron with personalized service, transcribing materials from regular print on demand. Organizations that simply select books made available the Library of Congress for mail…

Listed in the circular are approximately 32 commercial and volunteer producers of large type materials, approximately 50 large type books for reference and special needs, and five further sources of large type materials. Usually given for each alphabetically listed producer are the address, specialty (whether producer of specific categories or of…

New York State has a longstanding commitment to library and media service to the blind and visually handicapped; in fact, the service is generally known to be the first such program organized by any state. Going back to 1896, it was another of the innovations of Melvil Dewey. This report describes the present state of library service to the blind…