This volume includes four sections of the 2023 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Business and Management; (2) Education and Educational Research; (3) Political Science; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Business and Management includes 6 papers covering business, including management and organizational studies, business law, and…

These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-16, 2018. The Mobile Learning 2018 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile…

This summary of a seminar meeting on professionalism in the field of rehabilitation of persons with blindness or visual impairment addresses: management of services; specialization of services; public awareness; and certification. (DB)

This summary of a seminar meeting on economics issues and the "blindness system" addresses the economics of four service delivery models (charity, medical, public provider, and business models) and points to consider in selecting a model (professional specialization, integration, and client roles). A chart compares service delivery principles…

This summary of a seminar meeting on organization of the field of visually impaired rehabilitation addresses: restructuring of medical and rehabilitation services, rival accrediting agencies, effect of service provider mergers, problems in providing effective services, and possible solutions. (DB)

This summary of a seminar meeting on consumer concerns in services for people with blindness and visual impairments addresses the future of services, an ideal model of the blindness system, goals of rehabilitation services, a mission statement, differential evaluation of system criteria, and strategies to implement goals. (DB)

Presented are proceedings of a conference involving authorities in testing and evaluating the blind, deaf, and deaf-blind. In a paper titled "Psychological Implications of Assessing the Deaf", C. Goetzinger discusses references used in audiology, anatomy and physiology of the ear, degrees of hearing impairment, and implications of the various…

This three-day conference on the subject of audio technology for the production of materials for the blind, takes the court reporter approach to recording the speeches and discussions of the meeting. The result is a three volume set of complete transcripts, one volume for each day of the meeting, but continuous in form. The highlights of each…

The Carolina Counselors Spring Symposium, held in March, 1976, provided a setting in which faculty and students delivered papers focusing on their current interest areas in counseling and counselor education. The resulting publication contains studies on widely different subjects. Included in this volume are articles on: (1) mental patients' right…

This report is a collection of twenty papers which focus on the development of a rational and relevant philosophical premise upon which a national effort can be initiated and pursued to employ technology in services to the handicapped in general and the blind in particular. Special attention was directed to the identification and demonstration of…

This summary of 1987 and 1988 seminar meetings on service delivery to people with blindness or visual impairments addresses: (1) service delivery systems (principles, the population served, and providers of services); and (2) the services provided, focusing on the blindness system as a system under siege. (DB)

This summary of a seminar meeting on the demographics of blindness or visual impairments addresses demographic data as "hard facts" (three studies are compared) and implications of the demographic "facts" related to the nature and location of clients, barriers to service receipt, independence versus interdependence, and the need for greater…

Two meetings of the International Federation of Library Associations Section of Libraries for the Blind (BLISTA) are summarized. The first was an expert meeting which was held in Marburg/Lahn, Federal Republic of Germany, in August 1983. Participants included 51 librarians and technical experts serving blind and physically disabled individuals in…

This summary of a 1988 seminar meeting on service delivery to people with blindness or visual impairments focuses on rehabilitation, addressing access to information, consumers' impressions of services, purpose of evaluations, dealing with cultural differences, sites for delivering services, issues in rehabilitation, and training of rehabilitation…

The document presents five papers from a conference involving educators of deaf, blind, and deaf blind children. In "Challenge--Educating Deaf-Blind Children," F. Roberts discusses common societal concepts regarding the deaf blind, the teacher's role in dealing with these children, and the developmental approach to educational planning…