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As the parents of an eight-year-old blind child in the second grade, my husband and I were very pleased to read your sympathetic Dec. 10 article on the education of blind children alongside their sighted contemporaries in Chicago. The spread of the public-school program in this field...
In Boston, integration often starts earlier. But along with special classes in Braille, the. children are introduced to their schools before the term begins. They learn their way around the halls, how to get to the washrooms and use the playground equipment. Though they spend part of each day in...
Double Boon. In Chicago, a first-grader may spend one-third of his time doing regular work, an eighth-grader three-fourths. But from kindergarten to high school, each blind child has an older "buddy" who reads to him when Braille texts are not available and serves as his guide...
In general, they also do well with their studies: they have been valedictorians, class presidents and successful college students. Meanwhile, they learn to get over such "blindisms" as the habit of poking at their eyes, of sprawling in their seats (because they cannot see how sloppy they look), and walking...
Situated in the borderland of the Sahara and the Sudan, 175-mile-long Lake Chad is the last fragment of a sprawling inland sea estimated to have been roughly the size of the Caspian. It once constituted an inland trading route and a favorite hunting ground of pirates. But long...