The paper examines issues concerned with the education and employment of individuals, primarily males, with color vision deficiency. After a brief introduction, the first chapter looks at adult problems such as employment areas in which the disability presents problems. The next chapter considers problems of children, noting the heavy use of color…

Studied were eye coordination and effects of fatigue on vision in the visual and academic functioning of 1049 students in grades 1 through 10. An earlier study (1966) examined the eye coordination of 1152 students in grades 1 through 12. The common Snellen Test of Visual Acuity failed to indicate 42% of students who were diagnosed by other tests…

The Rand Corporation has been doing research on closed-circuit television systems to aid the partially sighted since 1966. The current experimental system enhances the image electronically to provide a magnified image that is brighter and has greater contrast than the object being observed. The system also incorporates an easily movable platform…

The article examines the relative sizes of the nation's partially sighted, legally blind but not functionally blind, and functionally blind populations as a function of age. (Author/CL)

The study assessed transfer of visual training for myopia using two different training stimuli and a single subject A-B-C-A design with a male student volunteer. A procedure including stimulus fading and reinforcement (positive verbal feedback) was used to effectively improve performance on both behavioral acuity tests during the training phases…

The author examines research on the reading skills of students with partial vision, noting the educationally handicapping consequences (including problems in rapidly implementing alternative scanning strategies), and suggesting implications for placement and instructional decisions. (CL)

A study involving two college students with visual impairments which made them incapable of accommodating visually revealed that Ss improved recognition efficiency with feedback but did not generalize the efficiency from trained to untrained stimuli of similar complexity. (CL)

The article provides information about the number and diversity of preschool children with handicaps requiring vision services, such as refractive errors and eye muscle imbalances, and describes a vision care system designed to ensure that these preschool children receive optimal vision care. (Author/CL)

A vision screening program in seven Ohio counties tested 3,261 preschool children and 44,885 school age children for problems of distance visual acuity, muscle balance, and observable eye problems. (DB)

Investigated was the page-at-a-glance speed reading phenomenon in two gifted adolescent readers with normal vision using only one eye. (KW)

Based on a 1976 Census Bureau survey and a 1977 National Center for Health Statistics survey, statistics are presented on employment of blind and low vision persons. (CL)