Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make books available to the blind is to have readers with crisp, clear voices record them phonographically. At the disposal of the country's blind are some 5,000 books translated into Braille. But whether he listens to a recording or reads Braille, the blind person must confine himself to those books which have been selected for him. Last week at Northwestern University a young graduate student in psychology named Emil Ranseen demonstrated an invention by which a sightless reader patient enough to learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper...
...Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs to lead blind men, blind men to follow dogs...
...Nashville, Tenn. a friend read her article to blind, young Morris Frank. He wrote to Mrs. Eustis and she promptly invited him to visit her at Fortunate Fields. There he was trained to use a German shepherd named "Buddy." When he returned home he tested Buddy in congested traffic, enthusiastically cabled Mrs. Eustis that Buddy was a success, that she must come to the U. S. and start with his help a "philanthropic school" for training more dogs like Buddy. Next year the pair founded "The Seeing Eye" at Nashville. Three years ago it was moved to Morristown...
...useful through a life span of ten years. Most breeders believe that bitches are steadier and more intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind man's route. The blind man must know his own route. The dog's function is to use his eyes, warn his master when the route is impassable...
...blind people who have received dogs from "The Seeing Eye" go to Morristown for a month's course. Mrs. Eustis has found that most of the blind need a "mental housecleaning" before anything else. The eight members of each month's class at "The Seeing Eye," are first "built up" psychologically, encouraged to find their way in familiar surroundings. Then the blind student gets a dog whose harness, equipped with a semirigid, U-shaped handle, is sensitive to the slightest human touch. With an instructor at hand, the student tests his dog in Morristown traffic. When at month...