Founded in Boston in 1829, Perkins School for the Blind was the first school of its kind in the United States. Perkins pioneered education for people who are deafblind when seven-year-old Laura Bridgman became the first deafblind person to learn language, in 1837. Fifty years later, alumna Annie Sullivan used the same methods to teach Helen Keller, the deafblind Perkins student who became one of the foremost humanitarians of the twentieth century. The school also pioneered the first kindergarten for the blind and the first training programs for teachers of the blind and deafblind. Perkins School for the Blind pays tribute to this groundbreaking institution and its legacy of establishing education programs that bring hope and dignity to more than forty thousand people with blindness and deafblindness worldwide.
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Kimberly French is an accomplished writer and essayist whose work has been included twice in the Best American Essays series. French compiled this history by tapping the extensive archives of the school and the rich experience of its staff. Kimberly French is an accomplished writer and essayist whose work has been included twice in the Best American Essays series. French compiled this history by tapping the extensive archives of the school and the rich experience of its staff.
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John Dix Fisher had long known his life's work would be in medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deafblind education, rubella epidemic, multiple disabilities, second director, blind children Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower School, South Boston, Helen Keller, Laura Bridgman, Howe Building, Annie Sullivan, Howe Press, Michael Anagnos, Samuel Gridley Howe, New England, United States, Edward Allen, Hilton Foundation, Perkins Braille, Edward Waterhouse, Gabriel Farrell, Hilton Building, John Dix Fisher, Larry Melander, Margaret Bourke-White, Boston Line Type, Donald Hubbs, Pearl Street New!
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John Dix Fisher had long known his life's work would be in medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deafblind education, rubella epidemic, multiple disabilities, second director, blind children Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower School, South Boston, Helen Keller, Laura Bridgman, Howe Building, Annie Sullivan, Howe Press, Michael Anagnos, Samuel Gridley Howe, New England, United States, Edward Allen, Hilton Foundation, Perkins Braille, Edward Waterhouse, Gabriel Farrell, Hilton Building, John Dix Fisher, Larry Melander, Margaret Bourke-White, Boston Line Type, Donald Hubbs, Pearl Street New!
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- Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) by George Sullivan on 7 pages
- American Notes (Konemann Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 14, and page 35
- Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann in Back Matter
- Alexander Graham Bell (First Biographies (Capstone Hardcover)) by Lola M. Schaefer on page 36
- Alexander Graham Bell (What Would You Ask?) by Anita Ganeri on page 36
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- Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius by C. Michael Mellor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- If at First . . .: How Great People Turned Setbacks into Great Success by Laura Fitzgerald on page 37
- Teaching Visually Impaired Children by Virginia E. Bishop in Back Matter
- Helen Keller, Public Speaker: Sightless But Seen, Deaf But Heard (Great American Orators) by Lois J. Einhorn in Back Matter
- Assessment of Intellectual Functioning (Perspectives on Individual Differences) by Lewis R. Aiken in Back Matter
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