This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to education for blindness and visual impairment. It broadens the perspective beyond the school and includes the individual=s entire lifespan, from early childhood education to old age. In this way, it presents the main foundations of the discipline, the profession and all institutions involved in education for the blind and visually impaired in a handy, compact form. References to practical work are a consistent principle. A unique aspect of the book is the close connection it makes between the psychological and diagnostic foundations and specific educational measures in the different areas of work.