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Cardiff Institute for the Blind was founded in April 1865 by Frances Batty Shand, [2] the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner. After moving to Cardiff, Shand set up a small workshop employing five blind men to make baskets for coal ships. [2]
Geraldine Jerrie Lawhorn (December 31, 1916 – July 3, 2016) was a figure of the American deafblind community, a performer, actress, pianist, then instructor at the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is the standardizing body of English Braille orthography in the United States and Canada.It consists of a number of member organizations, such as the Braille Institute of America, the National Braille Association, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
RNIB's helpline gives access to sight loss experts for questions and guidance. [25]RNIB's extensive range of reading services includes RNIB Bookshare – a free library of over one million items, which supports students and others in education with a vast collection of accessible textbooks and materials [26] – and Talking Books, a service first established in 1935, [27] which offers ...
The Howe Building Tower from afar on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. Founded in 1829, Perkins was the first school for the blind established in the United States. [4] The school was originally named the New England Asylum for the Blind and was incorporated on March 2, 1829. The name was eventually ...
It was originally the Preston Industrial Institute for the Blind, then the Institute for Blind Welfare and until 2000 the Preston and North Lancashire Blind Welfare Society. It is now named after William Wilding Galloway , a cotton merchant from Preston who left £40,000 to local charities including £10,000 to the society when he died in 1936.
It was established in 1904 by a Catholic blind woman, Margaret Coffey, and it was formerly known as the Catholic Institute for the Blind. [2] It formally became a Catholic school in 1909 with the order of sisters beginning to operate the school in 1911. It moved to its current facility in 1916. [1] For a period it served as a boarding school ...
New York Point (New York Point: ) is a braille-like system of tactile writing for the blind invented by William Bell Wait (1839–1916), a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. The system used one to four pairs of points set side by side, each containing one or two dots.