InfoGuides: Visual Impairments and Education: Find Articles

Key Visual Impairment Databases

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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Education Research Complete covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education
LearnTechLib This link opens in a new window
Contains over thirty years worth of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Contains citations and abstracts from thousands of journals, as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers from 1952 to present. Includes the complete Social Services Abstracts.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Key Journals

Unless otherwise noted, these journals are peer-reviewed

British Journal of Visual Impairment
The journal publishes articles on visual impairment relevant to education, health, welfare, employment and the application of technology...
from 04/01/1987 to present
Exceptional Children
Original research on the education and development of exceptional infants, toddlers, children and youth and articles on professional issues of concern to special educators.
from 10/01/1951 to present
Human Factors
Articles encompass a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches, including laboratory and real-world studies; quantitative and qualitative methods; ecological, information-processing, and computational perspectives; human performance models; behavioral, physiological, and neuroscientific measures; micro- and macroergonomics; evaluative reviews of the literature; methodological analyses; and state-of-the-art reviews that cover all aspects of the human-system interface.
from 09/01/1958 to present
Journal of Blindness Innovation and Research
An open access journal is created by blind people, parents, teachers, administrators, and academic researchers. The journal publishes material primarily on the education of the blind, innovations related to Braille, and other techniques and tools for independent movement and travel for the blind. (non-peer-reviewed)
09/01/2013 to present
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
An international, interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies and the and discussion of issues.
from 09/01/1993 to present

Suggested Search Terms

The list below suggests relevant search terms on students with visual impairments

In the database Education Research Complete search the following subjects:
CHILDREN with visual disabilities -- Education
VISUALLY impaired students
BLIND students

In the database PsycInfo search the following subjects:
Vision Disorders
Braille
Mainstreaming (Educational)