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Peer reviewedKirchner, Corinne – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1999
Discusses the prevalence of people with visual impairment and trends affecting prevalence, including increased overall populations and a growth in the older population, greater ability to preserve lives of high-risk populations, improved fitness, medical advances in prevention, expanding role of computers among other increasing visual demands, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Disease Incidence, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedKirchner, Corinne; Diament, Sara – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1999
Discusses lack of data on children with visual impairments and development of the National Plan for Training Personnel to Serve Children with Blindness and Low Vision (NPTP) to address personnel shortages and to conduct a needs assessment. The NPTP estimate of 93,000 students with visual impairments is analyzed. (CR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Children, Data Collection
