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Lighthouse Guild. Lighthouse Guild is an American charitable organization, based in New York City, devoted to vision rehabilitation and advocacy for the blind. Its mission statement is "To overcome vision impairment for people of all ages through worldwide leadership in rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy."
JBI International, formerly the Jewish Braille Institute, is an international non-profit organization created to assist visually impaired and reading disabled people around the world by providing access to publications in Braille, Large Print and Audiobook. Publications are made available in English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Romanian ...
He was blind from birth from a combination of macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. He attended public schools at first but did most of his primary and secondary education at the Jewish Guild for the Blind school in Yonkers, New York. His undergraduate studies were at Brooklyn College where he studied psychology.
The Central Library for Blind and Reading Impaired People (Israel) ( Hebrew: הספרייה המרכזית לעיוורים ולבעלי לקויות קריאה ), formerly known as The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped, supplies people who cannot read books, for various disabilities, with books which are suitable ...
Opened. 1947. Closed. 1987. Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987. The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000.
History. Founded in 1902 under the direction of Josephine Rowan as the Reading Room for the Blind in the San Francisco Public Library's basement, the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired has grown out of a series of nonprofit mergers throughout its century-long existence into an organization that provides a wide range of services for the visually challenged in the Bay Area.
C. Doris Hellman. Clarisse Doris Hellman Pepper (August 28, 1910 – March 28, 1973) was an American historian of science, "one of the first professional historians of science in the United States". [1] She specialized in 16th- and 17th-century astronomy, [2] wrote a book on the Great Comet of 1577, and was the translator of another book, a ...
Burton J. Kushner. Burt Kushner is an American pediatric ophthalmologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of strabismus. Kushner's contributions include demonstration of improved visual fields of patients following strabismus surgery, elucidation of torsional contribution to patients with diplopia, corticosteroid treatment of ...