To connect with specialists with expertise in assessing blind and low vision students, contact your local school for blind and low vision children. For a list of schools and agencies in the United States and Canada, visit the Council of Schools and Services for the Blind or American Printing House.

Psychologists may consider joining the BVIPsych: School Psychologists Serving Blind and Low Vision Students listserv. BVIPsych is an interactive listserv for psychologists serving blind, low vision, and deafblind students. This forum offers a space to share resources and support one another, strengthen clinical skills and practices to assure quality assessments, interventions and support services.

Educational resources

Comprehensive Evaluations of Individuals With Visual Impairments (2024) is an update to the 2011 Intelligence testing of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. It provides actionable guidelines for clinicians conducting assessments with blind and low vision students.

Making evaluation meaningful: Determining additional eligibilities and appropriate instructional strategies for students with blindness and visual impairment by Marnee Loftin, 2022, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Perkins eLearning resources have extensive opportunities for online learning, including podcasts, videos, and articles.

Texas School for the Blind has extensive resources and online learning opportunities.

Paths to Literacy for students who are blind or visually impaired has many excellent resources for parents, educators, and assessors on reading, writing, and math.

Assessment of children with visual impairments (PAR talks webinar). This webinar discusses the unique challenges of evaluating an individual with a visual impairment. The session reviews issues related to test adaptation, test interpretation, and construct validity. Participants learn how to make an ethical, informed decision about when to proceed with an evaluation, when and where to seek consultation, and when to refer elsewhere.