BLVS faculty contribute to core text for their field

The third edition of Foundations of Education that was just released by the American Foundation for the Blind includes two chapters that were co-authored by Dawn Anderson and Rob Wall Emerson from the Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies.

The third edition of Foundations of Education is presented in two volumes. Volume I is "History and Theory of Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments" and Volume II is "Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments."

Anderson and Emerson co-authored a chapter in Volume I entitled, "Applying General Education Theory to Visual Impairment." Emerson also co-authored another chapter, "Reading and Interpreting Research."

This text is the core foundational text for teachers of children with visual impairments just as the Foundations of Orientation and Mobility and the Foundations of Rehabilitation Teaching are the core foundational texts in those fields. Having Drs. Anderson and Wall Emerson represented in the third edition of Foundations of Education means that WMU Blindness and Low Vision Studies faculty are now authors on chapters in all foundation texts related to services for people with visual impairments.