The article presents a rationale for providing early intervention services to visually handicapped infants, followed by a discussion of implications of home programs for educators. Among guidelines offered are that educators should serve as clearinghouses of information for families and emphasize incidental learning in the actual environment.…

Recounts one student's experience. (RT)

The Training Centre for the Adult Blind in Dehra Dunn, India, was founded in 1943. In the years since, its emphasis has moved from crafts training to preparation for industrial jobs involving light engineering of various types. Braille and typing in both Indian languages and English are important parts of the program. (MF)

The author, blind herself, looks back on her own adolescence and that of seven other women to give some impressions of the feelings and experiences of blind teenage girls and of their special problems with peers, dating, fashion, and makeup. (Author/CL)

Administrators of agencies serving the blind have the responsibility for their staffs serve multiply handicapped clients. Administrators set the tone of the agency. On a practical level, they can use personnel practices, staff development resources, and case management techniques to ensure implementation of sound, individualized service to…

An analysis of major recommendations of the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped received by 50 state and not-for-profit agencies raised questions about emphasis on administrative standards and low concern about physical facilities. Suggestions, including elimination of duplications, are made. (CL)

The article links the roles of libraries and professional library staffs to the newly emerging consciousness of the "library rights" of blind and print handicapped persons throughout the world. (Author)

The study investigated the use of ultrasonic sonar device--the Sonicguide--by 10 blind infants. Noted among findings is that the use in the younger infants is more rapid and spontaneous. (Author/SB)

Professional and administrative issues of concern to members of the American Association of Workers for the Blind are discussed. (CL)

The author discusses the needs of houseparents in residential centers for the blind and the strides that are being made by national associations to meet those needs. Increased articles on the subject in journals and a membership campaign to encourage participation of houseparents in their association are suggested. (PHR)

Sensory image scores of blind and sighted adolescents were classified into seven sensory categories according to the Betts Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery (shortened form). Blind adolescents were not restricted in the formation of visual images nor did the relative ordering of the sensory categories differ as a function of sight. (Author/SJL)

Discusses author's experiences as a blind person and the impacts of his disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Discusses tension between desired independence and necessary dependence. (ABL)

This bibliography of 115 items provides a semiannual update to a book that annotates professional literature related to blindness issued since 1953. Items are dated from 1988 through 1990. Included are documents, journal articles, books, papers, and doctoral dissertations. Entries are alphabetical by author. An analytical subject index is…

Describes the experiences of a man who, after suddenly becoming blind, became a successful auto mechanics teacher. (Author)