The development of educational programs which relate to the career development needs of blind and visually impaired youth depends on information about their needs. These data are not presently available. The following study identified career development needs of blind ninth grade students and determined their perceptions of the extent to which these needs were met by their schools. The blind ninth graders surveyed reported that a number of their career development needs were not being met by the schools they attended, and that even those services which were not perceived as necessarily meeting their needs were not readily accessible to them.
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