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The Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library is located in Watertown, Massachusetts on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind. Services are provided free of charge to eligible users. The library is a branch of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.
Florence. Henry. Laura. Maud. Samuel Jr. Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, 1801 – January 9, 1876) [1] was an American physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution. In 1824, he had gone to Greece to serve in the revolution as a surgeon.
Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library, on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind; Watertown Free Public Library [44] at 123 Main Street, in a newly renovated and expanded building; The Mosesian Center for the Arts is a regional arts center located in the former US Army Arsenal along the Charles River. Offerings include visual and ...
Laura Bridgman. Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide. [note 1] Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two ...
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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] Anagnos published Education of the Blind in 1882. Around this time, he devised a plan for a ...
N. Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired. New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. New York Institute for Special Education. New York State School for the Blind. North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind.
Born. June 13, 1807. Newington. Died. August 12, 1884 (aged 77) Alma mater. American School for the Deaf. Julia Brace (June 13, 1807 – August 12, 1884) was a deafblind woman who enrolled at the American School for the Deaf, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1825 and remained there as an employee after her graduation.