VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

Assessments of students will be conducted, in collaboration with parents, by personnel having expertise in the education of students with visual impairments.

Assessment Compendium: Instruments for Assessing the Skills and Interests of Individuals with Visual Impairment
This compendium is intended to be a guide to assessment instruments that are available to clinicians who assess students with visual impairment or multiple disabilities.

Statewide Testing Program
Follow this link for information on:

• Statewide tests (e.g. End-of-Grade, Computer Skills, End-of-Course, etc.)
• Accommodations, including the new Computerized Adaptive Testing System
• Alternate Assessment (i.e. NC Alternate Assessment Portfolio and the new NC Alternate Assessment Academic Inventory)

Views on Psychological Assessments for Students with Visual Impairments, including those with Multiple Disabilities

Low Vision Services
Evaluation, prescription of strategies, non-optical aids, and optical aids, and training of students with visual impairments to maximize the use of their residual vision to be more productive