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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
Peer reviewedGerber, Elaine; Kirchner, Corinne – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
The Census Bureau's 1999 Survey of Income and Program Participation found that Internet access and computer use by people with visual impairments is substantially (30 percent) less than that for people with no disabilities. Age, employment, and the presence of additional impairments also affected computer use. Results suggest over a million…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Adolescents, Adults
