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Perkins School for the Blind

Title: Perkins School for the Blind / Kimberly French for Perkins School for the Blind.
Author: French, Kimberly.
Publication: Charleston, SC : Arcadia, ©2004.

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Perkins School for the Blind.

Description

128 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

[Publisher-supplied data] 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.

Series Statement

Campus history series

Uniform Title

Campus history series

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

(Publisher-supplied data) 1. The Founders 2. The Howe Years 3. A Child's Garden 4. Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan 5. A Sense of Place 6. Connecting the Dots 7. Touch the World 8. Life at Perkins 9. Changing Times 10. Hilton's Legacy, Perkins's Vision.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 128).

ISBN

9780738535999
0738535990

LCCN

2004103265

OCLC

ocm57179321
SCSB-9494629

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library