Barasch, Moshe. (2001). "Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought" . New York: Routledge.
This book explores a world deprived of sight as it has been depicted in antiquity, in the early Christian world, in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, and in the age of Diderot. Exploring the fascinating paradoxes in Western representation if blindness, including in art. Barasch reveals the ways in which the idea of absence of vision has been central in the history of our visual culture.
Duncan, Jennifer. (2001). "The Slate Book: A Guide to the Slate and Stylus". Baltimore, Maryland: National Federation of the Blind.
Fazzi, Diane and Petermeyer, Barbara. ed. (2001). Creative Approaches to Orientation and Mobility Instruction for People Who are Visually Impaired. New York: American Foundation for the Blind Press.
This book explores approaches to creative methods on how to teach various orientation and mobility techniques to people who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities.
Gronmo, Siv Johanne and Augestad, Liv Berit. (2001). Blind Youth, Self-concept and Physical Activity. Melhus, Norway: Tambartun National Resource Centre of Visually Impaired.
The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the significance of different school provisions in physical education and social self-concepts and global self-worth. The study sample consisted of 8 blind integrated Norwegian and 12 special school French youth.
Mehta, Ved. (2001). All for Love. Granta Books.
The latest book by the author about his life. Ved Mehta became blind as a boy in India, two months short off his fourth birthday, but for the next 30 years lived in the grip of a fantasy that he could see. After an education which included the Arkansas School for the Blind, Harvard and Oxford, he traveled and wrote for the "New Yorkers" magazine. At the age of 20, he published his first book. Soon he had established himself as a successful author and a young man about Manhattan. Blindness to him was no longer a problem.
Millian, Madeline and Erin, Jane.(2001). The Influence of Race, Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity on the Individual. New York: American Foundation for the Blind Press.
Provides a timely look at social diversity among people who are blind or visually impaired discusses how cultural, social, and religious factors play an important role in the way an individual perceives and copes with a visual impairment.
Overbrook School for the Blind (2001) Technology for All: Assistive Technology in the Classroom. Philadelphia, PA: Overbrook School for the Blind, Tower Press.
If you have any recent publications, no later than 2001, that you wish to be considered for this section please send a copy to the editor, Ken Stuckey.