Introduction to support for students with a visual impairment in college and university
Books
Hughes, Jill & Lackenby, Natalie
Achieving successful transitions for young people with disabilities
Jessica Kingsley, 2015
ISBN 9781849055680
A best practice guide to transitions between services for young people aged 16-25 with additional needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, complex needs and sensory impairments.
RNIB Scotland
Bridging the gap: your future, your vision, your choice
RNIB Scotland, 2011
Looks at all the post 16 options available to visually impaired children such as further and higher education and work.
Scottish Executive
Employing support workers in higher education: a guide for students and advisers
Scottish Executive, 2007
9780755954360
Provides guidance about getting assistance from different types of support workers in higher education. It looks at ways to arrange this support, including using workers employed by your institution and things to think about if you choose to employ your own assistant.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/07/06105621/0
Sense
Getting a result: the transition into adulthood: an information pack for young people and families
Sense, 2015
Designed to guide parents of young people with sensory impairments and other disabilities through the transition from school to the world beyond. It deals with the teenage years when young people plan and begin their future as young adults. Includes 16 Factsheets/Templates. England & Wales bias.
https://www.sense.org.uk/get-support/information-and-advice/support-for-young-people/
Smith, Lee ... [et al]
Shaping the future: the educational experiences of blind and partially sighted young people aged 16 to 25
RNIB, 2001
ISBN 1858784794
Research report 3
Weedon, Elisabet ... [et al]
Disabled students in higher education: experiences and outcomes
CREID, 2008
Briefing paper on research to understand disabled students' social and academic experiences. Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) Briefing 12.
http://www.creid.ed.ac.uk/education/creid/Briefings/Briefing12.pdf
Articles
Atkinson, Karen & Hutchinson, Jane Owen
Transition from higher education to National Health Service for visually impaired physiotherapists: an interpretative phenomenological exploration
British Journal of Visual Impairment
January 2013, Vol 31 (1), p32-46
Looks at the transition from HE to work for trained physiotherapists who are also visually impaired.
Dyment, Sophie
Taking the next step
Insight
Sep/Oct 2010, No 29, p17-18
Describes a new transition service in Wales, providing support to visually impaired young people going into further or higher education or work.
Hewett, Rachel & Douglas, Graeme
Where can I go after my GCSEs?
Insight
Oct/Dec 2011, No 36, p37-39
Early report from a project looking at the experiences of visually impaired students as they complete compulsory education and move onto further and higher education or employment.
Hewett, Rachel; Douglas, Graeme; Keil, Sue
Post-16 transition experience of visually impaired young people in England and Wales: Early findings from a longitudinal study
British Journal of Visual Impairment
September 2014, Vol 32 (3), p211-222
Experiences of young people with visual impairments in transition from school to further or higher education and employment.
Keil, Sue
Going to university
Insight
Sep/Oct 2014, No 53, p20-21
New research points to a need for a more coordinated approach to supporting young people with visual impairment when they apply to university
McDonald, Mary
Moving on from school
Insight
May/Jun 2014, No 51, p17
Strategies used by schools to ensure that young people have the best transition to work, or further and higher education.
McNaught, Alistair
Starting right: right from the start
Insight
Sept/Oct 2011, No 35, p30-31
Technology advice for new students heading for college or university.
Patterson, John A & Loomis, Colleen
Linking schools, universities, and businesses to mobilize resources and support for career choice and development of students who are visually impaired
British Journal of Visual Impairment
September 2016, Vol 34 (3), p262-270
Looks at linking schools, universities and local organisations to make the school curriculum more relevant for career development for students who are visually impaired.
Pavey, Sue; Douglas, Graeme; Corcoran, Christine
Transition into adulthood and work: findings from network 1000
British Journal of Visual Impairment
May 2008, Vol 26 (2), p202-216
Findings from a project aiming to survey the needs and opinions of visually impaired adults across the UK. This article reports on data from adults aged 18-42 about education and employment.
Simui, Francis ... [et al]
Enablers and disablers to academic success of students with visual impairment: A 10-year literature disclosure, 2007–2017
British Journal of Visual Impairment
May 2018, Vol 36 (2), p163-174
This literature review covering the last 10 years explores the barriers to achievement in higher education for students with visual impairment across 16 countries.
Thorley, Melanie
Student support
Insight
Sep/Oct 2010, No 29, p14-15
Two visually impaired students in higher education talk about a mentoring scheme being run by University of Greenwich.
Websites
Stalker, Kirsten
Young disabled people moving into adulthood in Scotland (Foundations N42)
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002
A review of the transition planning and support of young disabled people in Scotland. Follows on from a report by Jenny Morris (Ref 512) on the situation in England, that report is on JRF website: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/moving-adulthood-young-disabled-people-moving-adulthood.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/young-disabled-people-moving-adulthood-scotland