Psychometric Protocols for Psychological, Educational, and Vocational Testing for Persons With Blindness and Visual Impairments

Psychological, educational, and vocational testing is rarely accommodated or modified for persons with blindness or visual impairments. Reasons for failing to modify testing may include lack of know ledge about the need to modify testing by the test administrator, poor current testing options for this specialized population, and lack of skills to offer appropriate accommodations. In addition to addressing these issues, this article offer a historical framework for testing persons with blindness and visual impairments, necessary traits to be tested, qualifications of persons completing testing, proposed purposes of these evaluations, and then recommendations for further testing development.