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Valentin Haüy (pronounced ; 13 November 1745 – 19 March 1822) was the founder, in 1785, [1] [2] of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris (now Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, or the National Institute for the Young Blind, INJA). In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school.
The first school for blind adults was founded in 1866 at Worcester and was called the College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen. Georgia Academy for the Blind, Macon, Georgia, US, circa 1876 In 1889 the Edgerton Commission published a report that recommended that the blind should receive compulsory education from the age of 5–16 years.
Education for the blind started in New Mexico in the 1893–1894 school year at the state Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (the present-day New Mexico School for the Deaf). [1]: 2 The school had difficulty attracting blind students, and William Ashton Hawkins, a member of the territorial legislature from Alamogordo, introduced and succeeding in 1903 in securing passage of a bill to create the New ...
Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School was a state-operated school for the blind. It was replaced by the Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Vinton, Iowa, hosted the school and continued as host of the state agency that replaced it until 2020. Students from all over Iowa were housed and educated at the school. During ...
School for the Blind and Visually Impaired expanding early childhood program. Tribune. Margaret O'Hara, The Santa Fe New Mexican. August 27, 2024 at 11:32 PM.
The school was founded in 1831 as a school for blind children by Samuel Wood, a Quaker philanthropist, Samuel Akerly, a physician, and John Dennison Russ, a philanthropist and physician. The school was originally named New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. It was located at 34th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City ...
North Carolina’s three residential schools for deaf and blind students will be under new management after Gov. Roy Cooper allowed the legislation to become law over the weekend without his ...
Governor Morehead School (GMS), is a K–12 public school for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States , it served blind people of all races and deaf black people.