The article describes the team work approach used in Sweden to provide services to the four main categories of visual impairment: central scotoma, nystagmus, loss of peripheral vision while retaining central vision, and amblyopia. (Author/PHR)

A course on information and resources should be a basic component of any rehabilitation program for newly blinded individuals. (Author)

The article explains diabetes mellitus, giving a brief history of the disease, its description, complications, and treatment. (PHR)

The authors discuss the incidence and prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in juvenile and maturity onset diabetics, background and proliferative retinopathy, and current modalities of treatment. (Author)

The author believes that, in order to obtain the care he needs, the diabetic must assume responsibility for the treatment of his condition, in that he must understand the physical and psychological aspects of diabetes, know how the health system works, and use this knowledge in the personal management of his diabetes. (Author/PHR)

The author's research has shown that juvenile and adult diabetics, because of the pressures of dealing with their illness over time and because of the ways they are treated by others, develop certain traits and characteristics in common. (Author/PHR)

The psychosocial and visual problems of proliferating diabetic retinopathy are discussed in terms of four stages: discovery of the diagnosis, developing awareness of the diagnosis, realization of disability, and stabilization of vision. (Author)

The article is a series of seven reports by different authors on one or more aspects of rehabilitation of the blind diabetic. (PHR)

A study involving nine blind or partially sighted young adults was conducted to determine whether mime techniques are useful for teaching movement to the visually handicapped. (Author/SBH)

The use of the Laser Cane with four blind students attending public school is discussed with emphasis on modifications in technique needed to integrate the cane's use into each student's travel system. (Author)

Presented are guidelines to provide rehabilitation teachers, particularly those new to the field, with some basis for selecting materials and approaches which could facilitate the teaching of adaptive techniques to blind persons and to help teachers to apply theoretical knowledge to daily practice. (Author/SBH)

The American Foundation for the Blind survey on reporting systems for school-age visually handicapped children and youth concludes that there is no uniform retrieval system for educational, medical, or demographic information on blind and visually handicapped students. (Author/SBH)

Discussed is the nature of a central scotoma, or decreased central vision, and described are current techniques for training an individual to use the peripheral retina. (Author/IM)

The Tactile Test of Basic Concepts (TTBC), a tactile analog to the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC), was field tested with 75 blind students (kindergarten to grade 2) and the scores compared with those of sighted Ss used in the standardization sample for the BTBC. (Author/IM)