Low Vision Resources

Listed below are some valuable resources from the Texas School for the Blind website. Through their research efforts they have made the following resource list to assist persons interested in finding out more about the listed topics.

You will not be able to link to their website by clicking on the topics listed below. Please visit their website for access to the specific information that you seek at http://www.tsbvi.edu/recc/ves.htm.

Vision Efficiency Skills

Development of Vision

• Step-By-Step Charts in Preschool Vision Stimulation: It's More Than a Flashlight

Functional Vision Evaluation

• A Teacher's Guide to the Special Education Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children
• Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
• Assessment of Low Vision for Educational Purposes
• Developmental Visual Dysfunction: Models for Assessment and Management
• First Look: Vision Evaluation and Assessment for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers, Birth through Five Years of Age
• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• ISAVE (Individual Systematic Assessment of Visual Efficiency)
• Lighthouse Professional Products Catalog
• Low Vision: A Resource Guide with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning
• Specialized Assessments in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Second Edition
• Teaching Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments: A Resource Guide
• Vision Associates
• What Can Baby See? Vision Tests and Intervention Strategies for Infants with Multiple Disabilities

Instructional Aids/Materials

• American Printing House for the Blind (Vision Efficiency and Low Vision Products)
• Lighthouse Professional Products Catalog
• Walters, Inc.

Instructional Strategies

• Beyond Arm's Reach: Enhancing Distance Vision
• Children's Vision Concerns: Look beyond the Eyes!
• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• Functional Vision: Learning to Look
• Instruction in the Use of Vision of Children and Adults with Low Vision
• Let's See: Vision Development Activities
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy in Low Vision Students
• Oregon Project for Visually Impaired and Blind Preschool Children, Skills Inventory and Curriculum, Fifth Edition
• Preschool Vision Stimulation: It's More Than A Flashlight!
• Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning
• Visual Efficiency in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youth with Visual Impairments

Learning Media Assessment

• Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
• Learning Media Assessment for Students with Visual Impairments: A Resource Guide for Teachers
• Specialized Assessments in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Second Edition

* See also Literacy section

Low Vision

• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy in Low Vision Students
• Low Vision: A Resource Guide with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• Low Vision Gateway
• Understanding Low Vision

Low Vision Device Training

• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy in Low Vision Students
• Understanding Low Vision

Low Vision Devices

• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy in Low Vision Students
• Low Vision Gateway
• Walters, Inc.
• Understanding Low Vision

Low Vision Solutions

• CCTV Information
• Large Print and Speech Access to the WWW
• Low Vision: A Resource Guide with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• Low Vision Gateway

* See also Assistive Technology

Low Vision Specialists

• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• Low Vision Gateway
• Low Vision Specialists in Texas
• Understanding Low Vision

MIVI

• Cortical Visual Impairment in Young Children with Multiple Disabilities
• Developing Vision Use within Functional Daily Activities for Students with Visual & Multiple Disabilities
• Developmental Visual Dysfunction: Models for Assessment and Management
• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• ISAVE (Individual Systematic Assessment of Visual Efficiency)
• Look at Me: Resource Manual for the Development of Residual Vision in Multiple Impaired Children
• Observations on the Habilitation of Children with Cortical Visual Impairment
• Teaching Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments: A Resource Guide
• Vision Associates
• Vision Behaviors and Adaptations Associated with cortical and Ocular Impairment in Children
• What Can Baby See? Vision Tests and Intervention Strategies for Infants with Multiple Disabilities

Parent Resources

• Children's Vision Concerns: Look Beyond the Eyes!
• Low Vision Gateway
• VI Guide

Resources

• Children's Vision Concerns: Look Beyond the Eyes!
• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy for Low Vision Students
• Low Vision: A Resource Guide with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Website - Technology
• Understanding Low Vision
• VI Guide
• Visual Efficiency in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youth with Visual Impairments

Visual Efficiency Skills Training

• American Printing House for the Blind (Vision Efficiency and low Vision Products)
• Beyond Arm's Reach: Enhancing Distance Vision
• Functional Vision: Learning to Look
• Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy in Low Vision Students
• Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning

Visual Environment Adaptations

• Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives