Vision Impairment Resources
Supporting Students with Visual Impairments
More than Meets the Eye Presentation (42-minute YouTube video) was created by the California School for the Blind to help educators who are new to the needs of students with visual impairments.
Intelligence Testing of Individuals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired (APH) is an excellent resource for guidance on testing students who are blind or visually impaired. Information from this document may assist you in considerations when interpreting and reporting your results. Viewing this guidance document and other report writing samples may answer many of your questions.
Psychoeducational Evaluations of Students with Visual Impairments (2-hour 53-minute YouTube video) is an introduction to best practices that are essential for psychoeducational evaluations of students with visual impairments.
Handout- Psychoeducational Evaluations of Students with Visual Impairments is a live document that gets updated regularly and contains ample information regarding psychoeducational evaluations of students with visual impairments. This document includes lists of tests to consider.
CVI Self-Paced Short Course is a free Google Classroom course that will provide an abundance of information about cerebral/cortical visual impairment. A Google account is required to access this course. Use an account with an @gmail.com email domain as a school or work email address with a different email domain may have problems with accessing the course.
Psycho-educational Assessments in Children with Visual Impairments is a free LearningHub course designed for psychologists with expertise in psychoeducational assessment of children and adolescents. Learn to apply previously learned evaluation skills to assessing students with visual impairments. This course may also be helpful for TSVIs who are collaborating with psychologists. Registration for a free account is required to access the content.
SLP Assessment Considerations for Children with Visual Impairment is a document created by the CSB SLPs and lists a variety of assessment tools and strategies to use for students who are Blind or Visually Impaired. The list includes both standardized and non-standardized tools.
Handout – What’s in Your Assessment Toolbox is a document that includes assessment tools for FVA/LMA, psychoeducational, and speech and language evaluations.
Source:
May Nguyen, MS, LEP, NCSP, ACUE
Nationally Certified School Psychologist 43913
California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) School Psychology Adjunct Faculty
National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) BVIPsych Interest Group Co-Coordinator