Calls for Papers

• Special Issue on Vision and the Brain in 2010
• Celebrating 100 Years . . . and Beyond!
• General Call for Papers

JVIB Special Issue on Vision and the Brain

Guest editors: Amanda Hall Lueck, Ph.D., professor and coordinator, Program in Visual Impairments, Department of Special Education, San Francisco State University. Gregory L. Goodrich, Ph.D., research psychologist and coordinator, Optometric Research Fellowship Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System.

Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2010

Projected publication date: October 2010

Visual impairment and/or dysfunction linked to damage to the brain has come to the forefront of professional concern in the field of blindness and visual impairment. Cortical visual impairment (CVI), also known as cerebral visual impairment, is now the leading cause of visual impairment in children in the developed world and traumatic brain injuries have become the precipitating factor for vision loss among many U.S. soldiers returning from combat areas abroad. The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) seeks to build the literature on the definition, nature, and treatment of brain-related vision loss and the relationship between vision and the brain by inviting submissions for its special issue on this complex subject. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Prevalence, incidence, and diagnosis among children and adults
• Relationship of loss of function to location of brain damage
• Early intervention protocols
• Treatment of war veterans with polytrauma
• Oculomotor and other vision problems in mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Vision loss related to brain injury in older persons
• Evidence-based assessment and intervention techniques
• Comprehensive service delivery models
• Program planning and personnel preparation
• Economic impact and functional consequences of vision loss following TBI

Guidelines for contributors are generally printed in each issue of JVIB, and are also available from AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind: web site: <www.afb.org/jvib_guidelines.asp>; phone: 212-502-7651; e-mail: <afbpress@afb.net>.

E-mail submissions should be sent to: <jvib@jhmi.edu>.

Postal mail submissions should be sent to:

Duane R. Geruschat, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, JVIB
Lions Vision Center
550 North Broadway, 6th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21205

Questions should be sent to the editor in chief at the following e-mail address: <jvib@lions.med.jhu.edu>.

Celebrating 100 Years...and Beyond!

For the past 100 years, the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) has been the primary journal of record for the field of visual impairment and is a critical forum for the discussion of significant research, practice, and trends. The journal seeks to provide readers with essential information to support and inform their professional thinking and practice. In addition to articles and reports on all aspects of the work of the field, from educational practice to low vision service delivery to rehabilitation issues, JVIB welcomes submissions on the following topics of great current concern:

• Practice reports from teachers of students with visual impairments, including students with multiple disabilities
• Discussions of low vision service delivery, focusing on models of team collaboration and service provider roles, funding and reimbursement issues, and patient need and service outcomes
• Perspectives on the impact of federal No Child Left Behind legislation on programs for students with visual impairments and on teacher effectiveness
• Experiences of participants in the national Medicare demonstration project examining reimbursement of services by certified orientation and mobility specialists, low vision therapists, and vision rehabilitation therapists
• Examinations of different certification models and approaches in such areas as orientation and mobility

Guidelines for contributors are generally printed in each issue of JVIB, and are also available from AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind: web site: <www.afb.org/jvib_guidelines.asp>; phone: 212-502-7651; e-mail: <jvib@afb.net>.

E-mail submissions should be sent to: jvib@jhmi.edu.

Postal mail submissions should be sent to:
Duane R. Geruschat, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, JVIB
Lions Vision Center
550 North Broadway, 6th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21205

Questions should be sent to the editor in chief at the following e-mail address: jvibeditor@afb.net.

General Call for Papers

The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB) seeks research and practice articles for the peer-reviewed research and professional journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Aging
• Children
• Consumer advocacy
• Cultural diversity
• Deaf-blindness
• Disability
• Ethics
• Early intervention
• Education
• Employment
• Family (nontraditional and traditional)
• Gender
• Health care
• Low vision
• Multiple disabilities
• Orientation and mobility
• Outcomes assessment
• Parental perspectives
• Public schools
• Residential schools
• Special education
• Specialized services
• Teacher training
• Transition