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  2. Perkins School for the Blind - Wikipedia

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    It has also been known as the Perkins Institution for the Blind. [1] Perkins manufactures its own Perkins Brailler, which is used to print embossed, tactile books for the blind; [2] and the Perkins SMART Brailler, a braille teaching tool, at the Perkins Solutions division [3] housed within the Watertown campus's former Howe Press.

  3. Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library - Wikipedia

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    A narrator and monitor record a digital-audio book, or "talking book" for the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library. The recording studio housed within Perkins School for the Blind's Library records and produces digital audio books—local titles for its main collection that are then shared with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and custom audio ...

  4. Samuel Gridley Howe - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Perkins Brailler - Wikipedia

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    The Perkins Brailler is a "braille typewriter" with a key corresponding to each of the six dots of the braille code, a space key, a backspace key, and a line space key. Like a manual typewriter , it has two side knobs to advance paper through the machine and a carriage return lever above the keys.

  6. British Vogue is available in braille. Blind 'fashionistas ...

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    Kim Charlson, the executive director of the braille and talking book library at Perkins School for the Blind, says that it's really a "game changer" as fashion and design publications in ...

  7. Boston line letter - Wikipedia

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    The first books embossed at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1866 were in Boston line letter. By 1868, N.B. Kneass, Jr. , a printer in Philadelphia , had adapted what became known as a "combined system" which used the lower case forms of Boston line letter and capital letters from a rival tactile system known as Philadelphia Line. [ 2 ]

  8. Talk:Perkins School for the Blind - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Braille literacy - Wikipedia

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    Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired is the largest educator of braille as well as the largest worldwide provider of distance education for people who are blind or visually impaired. Braille literacy has been a priority for Hadley since its founding in 1920, and to this day, braille courses are still the most popular.