"The history of the movement to provide a special program of education for low-visioned children is of short duration. The New England Asylum for the Blind, the first school of its kind in America, was established in Boston, in 1832. This school is now the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. At the start, this school tried unsuccessfully to educate a youngster whose vision was poor, by the Braille method. Experience soon taught futility of this, for the youngster that had any vision at used his eyes to read the raised dots instead of his fingers. This spelled doom to the tactile method of teaching youngsters with defective eyesight. In 1912, Mr. Edward E. Allen, the director of Perkins Institution at that time, went abroad and found in Germany and England classes for myopes had been established. He visited a number of the classes in London and found satisfactory results in this method of education. He immediately set about to organize a class upon his return to the United States. The task was greater than he anticipated, but finally in Boston in 1913, in the Abbe May School Annex in Roxbury, the first sight-saving class was opened. The room in which the class was housed was poor, the lighting bad, and the equipment meager. However, the Perkins Institution came to the rescue with some equipment and the class began under the guidance of two capable teachers who has previously taught blind children. They had made a study of the methods used in teaching myopes in Germany and England"--Introduction. / "February, 1950." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: R. L. Goulding, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-47).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_257292 |
| Contributors | Lewis, Virginia Lee (authoraut), Goulding, Robert Lee (professor directing thesis.), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (47 leaves), computer, application/pdf |
| Coverage | Florida |
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