InfoGuides: Visual Impairments and Education: Find Articles

Suggested Search Terms

These lists suggest 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)

Key Visual Impairment Databases

Education Research Complete
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
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)
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.
Sage Journals Online
Provides online access (searching and browsing) to over 800 journals published by Sage in fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Social Sciences Citation Index
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
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.

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Education and Higher Education Databases
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Education meta search tool

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)

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