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 this same article, it was said that in the 1980's-1990's, the numbers of college drop outs that were visually impaired were extremely high and continued to grow; mostly because of their transition into college from high school.

This article is a great source for anyone who wants more views for college, from people in college that have visual impairments like themselves, or anyone who wants to study visual impairments in everyday life. 

Quality: This is a first hand source, and the study they talk about in this article has proven facts about struggles of going to college, and was also studied on individuals with visual impairments going to college; which is a reliable source. It also describes and talks about the different resources and help that these type of students get in college.

Issue: It is hard to navigate, and the article is not completely reliable as a source by itself.