# History of education of the blind

Category: Cram Session

## Post 1 by Kansas (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2011 7:28:08

Hi, it's Lizzie. My paper on the history of the education of the blind is due on the fourth of January. I have been researching for months, and I can't find a good article online. This project is extremely irritating, but I have to do it. If you do know any information that is good, can you say your first and last name so I can source the information? Thanks. PS, I know that it might not be good to be giving out info on the internet, but I think I wouldn't want to copy anyone's knowledge down without sourcing it propperly.

## Post 2 by SilverLightning (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2011 8:19:53

Well, I can't shed too much light personally, but I can tell you I did one google search and found several articles on the subject. The perkins school has a museum website that appears to have several articles on blind education, as does the NFB. I typed history of blind education into google and got several results that looked promising. You might start there.

## Post 3 by Kansas (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2011 19:48:59

Thank you so much! That really helps me! I'm going to try it out.

## Post 4 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Thursday, 29-Dec-2011 1:29:13

_grimaces* why research such a hard to research subject? *sigh* don't you know there's relatively little on disabilities?

## Post 5 by Kansas (Account disabled) on Thursday, 29-Dec-2011 23:07:12

well I guess it's true, but at least I found an article on the history of braille. I think that is a key thing because that goes in with learning how to read. I just wish it was a more brod topic, such as the history of blind people and how they lived back then. I bet most of them back then went to the poor farms.

## Post 6 by Siriusly Severus (The ESTJ 1w9 3w4 6w7 The Taskmaste) on Friday, 30-Dec-2011 12:58:36

yeah, well, that's just it there's not a lot of research which is sad. I was thinking of researching some form of blindness and how bblind kids are more interesting the sheltered ones and then, I am like meh, probably there's no studies on that people aren't intereste! I can't do that won't find anything. I mean there's stuff about racism, about gender differences, about all sorts of other things in the civil rights movement but when have you ever seen something big on disabilities? I haven't really, and my least favorite is civil right movies no mention of the ada talks about absolutely all sorts of civil rights but the ada talk is just not there.

## Post 7 by Kansas (Account disabled) on Saturday, 31-Dec-2011 12:44:36

I agree with you when you say that it is sad that there are really no research articles on this topic.