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Perkins School for the Blind. January 1996. – Submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, posted on Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) French, Kimberly. Perkins School for the Blind: The Campus History Series. Perkins School for the Blind, 2004. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
John Dix Fisher (March 27, 1797 – March 3, 1850) was a physician and founder of Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. He is credited with introducing the stethoscope into the United States and was an early advocate for the practice of mediate auscultation .
Howe Building, Perkins School for the Blind (1912). On October 7, 1880, Sullivan began her studies at the Perkins School. [ 2 ] Although her first years at Perkins were humiliating because of her rough manners, she managed to connect with a few teachers and made progress with her learning.
Perkins would serve these students, and the public, much better by using its money and influence to advocate for the improvement of special education services to all students with disabilities. While there is no denying that, at one time, Perkins School for the Blind WAS a good educational opportunity for blind students, this is no longer the case.
He studied the success of Laura Bridgman, a former student of the Perkins School for the Blind. This contributed to his work with Helen Keller, Thomas Stringer, Willie Elizabeth Robin, and other blind and deaf students. Howe died in January 1876; upon his death, Anagnos became the second director of the Perkins School for the Blind. [6]
It was known as the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum (since 1877, School for the Blind). Howe was director, and the life and soul of the school; he opened a printing-office and organized a fund for printing for the blind — the first done in the United States. He was a ceaseless promoter of their work.
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Anindya Bapin Bhattacharyya (born 3 July 1970) is an Indian American technology instructor for the deafblind. He coordinates the National Outreach Technology Development and Training Program at the Helen Keller National Center for DeafBlind Youths and Adults, traveling the country teaching deafblind people to use adaptive technology.