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Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School was a state-operated school for the blind. It was replaced by the Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Vinton, Iowa, hosted the school and continued as host of the state agency that replaced it until 2020. Students from all over Iowa were housed and educated at the school.
Kenneth Jernigan was born blind in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up on a farm in Tennessee. Beginning at the age of six, he was educated at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1945, he began attending Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee and graduated cum laude three years later.
Adelia M. Hoyt was a vocal advocate for self-help by the blind community. "Our most successful workshops and homes have been planned and supervised by sightless persons," she explained, and "every organized effort for the welfare of the blind should have on its board of directors some competent sightless person or persons" to prevent "many a ...
Miller wrote, “In the year before Jernigan’s appointment it [the Iowa Commission for the Blind] ranked at the very bottom among VR (vocational rehabilitation) agencies for the blind, with only ...
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled [1] ( NLS) is a free library program of braille and audio materials such as books and magazines circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States and American citizens living abroad by postage-free mail and online download. The program is sponsored by the Library of Congress.
American Foundation for the Blind. The American Foundation for the Blind ( AFB) is an American non-profit organization for people with vision loss. AFB's objectives include conducting research to advance change, promoting knowledge and understanding, and shaping policies and practices. Kirk Adams, formerly the first blind president and CEO of ...
The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired. [1] [2] The program has included audio recordings of books since 1934 and digital book efforts began ...
Just 11% of Iowa's 326 public school districts had a book challenged, and only 11 books were removed as a result. Ten others were restricted. Register exclusive: In 3 years, 60 books have been ...