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VIDBE-Q Volume 62 Issue 3
Book Review: College Bound:
A guide for students with visual impairments, 2
nd
edition
Christiana Bruchok,
Doctoral student,
Arizona State University,
Christiana.Bruchok@asu.edu
Trief, E. (2016). College bound: A guide for students with visual impairments (2
nd
ed.). New
York, NY: AFB Press.
College Bound, by Dr. Ellen Trief, is intended as a how-to guide for students with visual
impairments to prepare for, select, apply to, navigate, and be successful at college or
university. This volume is an action-oriented resource, providing students with numerous
suggestions, templates, and checklists intended to support a systematic approach to the entire
process. Dr. Trief, who also authored the original tome, is a professor of Blind & Visually
Impaired and Severe & Multiple Disabilities at the City University of New York. She was
previously an Associate Editor of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (JVIB), and
has published many articles and other books on techniques for assisting children with visual
impairments.
The considerations outlined for selecting, applying to, and getting into college are
germane to all college-bound high school students with the single addition of evaluating the
services offered by the various disability resource offices at each school. The author
