Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University official has any record of this statistic. Optimistically this could be seen as a sign that the University is attempting not to single out the handicapped. It could also show a lack of interest, except that the University clearly is interested in these students, and attempts to help them whenever possible, from supplying reading rooms for undergraduates to helping recruit readers at the Law School...
...rough and tumble of a public school is unsuited to the handicapped child," he said. He explained that rebuffs or teasing by normal children could make a blind child withdraw into a shell of hostility. Perkins not only teaches blind children tricks to make life more amenable and to help them get along by themselves and take care of themselves, but it also "builds up your confidence because you are competing with your peers." However, with the new trend of integrating the public schools, Charlie feels that schools like Perkins will turn into institutions for the slow learners...
...first year. Blind students were first allowed equal time for their exams; now they have time and a half (on the undergraduate level Harvard allows double time for exams). When there was a reader shortage this year, Leininger recruited extra readers from the Law School to help...
...find a fighter, because he wants to go into politics when he gets out of law school. "I'm an idealist," he told me. "It's the only way I can function, being blind." But he isn't only out to make a better world, he also wants to help educate the world about the blind. Once when he was applying for a job, the interviewer said to him, "My grandson is afflicted too. He's mentally retarded." Students such as David, Charlie, and Hal have proved themselves to the academic community, but the rest of the world needs convincing...
...guilty as Walt Disney, because they were never mine either. But I know how to leave them alone in the Hundred Acre Wood. What I don't like is this tampering. Trees can look at trees (I don't believe Walter Hickel)--we don't need roads to help people look at them...