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Peer reviewedBeaty, Lee Alan – RE:view, 1994
Assessment of psychosocial and academic adjustment of 30 undergraduates with visual impairments and 43 nondisabled undergraduates revealed no intergroup differences on psychosocial adjustment. The mean grade point average of subjects with visual impairments was higher than that of nondisabled subjects. Blind/low vision students scored higher than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blindness, College Students, Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedMioduser, David; Lahav, Orly; Nachmias, Rafi – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2000
A study investigated the use of a diagnostic and remedial adaptive computer tool to help an eighth-grader with low vision decrease spelling mistakes. Results indicate a clear change in the students' performance, from phonetic writing to process writing and a gradual evolution to automation in spelling and model word retrieval. (Contains…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Education
Peer reviewedKrebs, Cathryn S. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
A resource vision teacher describes activities to develop skills in solving mathematical word problems by three seventh graders with severe visual impairments. Students kept portfolios of problems they actually experienced in their daily lives. Success was achieved through providing an optimal environment, active involvement, self-assessment, and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Download full textTurnbull, Brenda J. – Public Education Network, 2006
This report analyzes the results of a bold set of initiatives designed to stimulate and support public responsibility for public education in 14 locales around the country. Local education funds (LEFs) led these initiatives, which received support from the Annenberg Foundation through the LEFs' national organization, the Public Education Network…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Vision, Teacher Effectiveness, School Restructuring
Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision. – 1997
This document presents reports of three projects to identify and analyze the appropriate use of instruction in Braille, optical devices, and other technologies as they relate to literacy and employment of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. The first project examined the choice of reading medium of 68 individuals (blind or visually…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Braille
Merkoski, Kay – 1988
Six thematic activity booklets are presented for implementing Project EAGLE, an enrichment program for gifted and talented primary-level children. "Animals 3" introduces endangered animals and locates their home areas on maps or globes, using nine learning activities involving science and creative writing. "Magnets" discusses…
Descriptors: Animals, Classification, Curriculum, Enrichment Activities
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1992
Widespread educational reform will occur only if encouraged by a coherent policy environment that explicitly supports fundamental change and unleashes the imagination and energy of students, teachers, parents, and community leaders. To prepare students well for the 21st century, our education system requires an interdisciplinary environment, a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Mann, James W.; Harley, Randall K. – 1986
This monograph serves as a guide to career development and transition planning for youths with blindness and low vision. An introductory chapter provides a sketch of the history of organized work for the blind in America as well as a set of narrative definitions of terms frequently used in the literature of special education, vocational education,…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Career Development, Career Education
Gothelf, Carole R.; And Others – 1988
Intended for use by New York City special education teachers with little or no experience serving students with dual sensory impairments as well as cognitive disabilities, the manual identifies teaching strategies that are easy to implement yet based on direct experience and the current research. Chapter titles and sample topics include the…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Deaf Blind
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1983
A study of the health mandates placed on elementary and secondary education in Illinois was initiated in September 1981. Rules and regulations requiring health examinations, screening of vision, hearing, and dental status, and immunization against certain preventable communicable diseases were reviewed. Analysis focused on five study questions:…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Dental Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Needs
Eaton, Janet F.; And Others – 1983
This study examines the relationship between student misconceptions and learning by focusing on six fifth-grade students as they attempt to make sense of classroom instruction on light and seeing. Pretests, posttests, and classroom observation narratives served as student data. Pretests indicate that students held the misconception that sight is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science
Rosenzweig, Mark R., Ed.; Porter, Lyman W., Ed. – 1982
This volume contains 20 essays on current research in representative areas of psychology. The authors are professors and researchers at universities in the United States, England, Colombia, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands, France, and Canada. A wide range of topics is discussed. Included among these are social psychology of intergroup…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Genetics, Higher Education, Information Processing
WEBB, CLARENCE; AND OTHERS – 1964
APPROXIMATELY 1,300 MENTALLY RETARDED PATIENTS WERE INVOLVED IN A STUDY ON THE ADEQUACY OF HEARING TESTS, THE INCIDENCE OF HEARING LOSS, AND STANDARDIZATION OF PROCEDURES. THE STUDY INCLUDED TEST STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION, HEARING SCREENING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL-SOCIAL-OTOLOGICAL EVALUATION, AND HEARING TEST DEVELOPMENT. THE SUBJECTS WHO…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Correctional Institutions, Evaluation Methods
Fulker, Wilber H.; Fulker, Mary – 1968
The production and use of tangible aids for teaching complete mental concepts to the blind are discussed. The Thermoform vacuum duplicating machine which produces teaching aids simulating pictures or drawings used by sighted children is described; and examples of Thermoform masters are cited, including Mendel's law, the maze, four stages of cell…
Descriptors: Blindness, Concept Formation, Educational Media, Educational Technology
Simmons, Beverley, Comp. – 1978
The bibliography contains information on approximately 400 books for visually impaired children from preschool age through fourth grade. It is explained that the references were compiled from a master list of 1,642 titles which were evaluated according to type style and size, spacing, contrast, and illustration. Entries are arranged alphabetically…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education
