Cited Source: “Students with Visual Disabilities | Affordable Colleges Online.” Affordable 2017 (web) 10/30/17 A Guide to Visual Disabilities: How Colleges Help Visually Impaired Students Succeed Summary: This article talks about how colleges help visually impaired or blind students succeed in college and the different technology there is for visually impaired students. Quality: It has very good sources and is a great resource for research or for anyone looking for new technology or prompts for college as a blind or low vision person Issue(s): It is very cluttered and is not the easiest to navigate.
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Cited Source: Visually Impaired Students | EBSCO host.com (Jean, Keller) 2017 (web) 10/27/17 Visually Impaired Students' Perceptions of Their Social Integration in College Summary: This Article talks about a survey that was taken on six visually impaired students and the interactions they have socially in college. For each of the surveys taken, each one of the students social influences were different. One student said that once they reached college, it was a culture shock for them because the environment of it all was so different; and also said that the isolation he felt along with not being able to fit in, didn't go away. Though to help students better succeed in college, there are programs like Disability Support Services outside of colleges such as the Rehabilitation program. This program helps students with their school supply needs such as getting braille notes, laptops, voice readers, etc. and much more. Quality: The article is very easy to navigate if you ha...
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Self-Perception and Locus of Control in Visually Impaired College Students with Different Types of Vision Loss Summary: This article was a report and a survey from 16 college students who were blind or had low vison and focuses on their struggles in college. In the article it is stated that "Sighted people have more difficulty understanding low vision than blindness" Quality: Issue(s):
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Making the grade: College students with visual impairments Summary: This is a report on a study from McBroom. It has a literature review and a legal history behind it; This article talks about blind or visually impaired students in college, the struggles with different vision losses, the help that students get in college being disabled, and being generally visually impaired or blind in college. For example, a very helpful source that any student with a disability gets in college is the Disability Support Services Center that is under the ADA (Americans with disabilities act) and is on every college campus. This service gives students extra help in school. Such as getting reduced distraction environments, or even getting a scribe or test reader to take class exams, etc. In 1984 it was estimated that over 11,000 college students were blind or visually impaired, thus compared to 105,400 with other disabilities, and 9.4 million with no disability. (McBroom). In...