The Blind In The United States 1920 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Index to the Proceedings of the American Association of Instructors of the Blind: 1871-1920, Its First Fifty Years In 1918, Mr. Milton J. Ferguson, Librarian of the California State Library, began the quest for a set of the Proceedings of the American As sociation of 'instructors of the Blind, realizing the usefulness of these volumes to all students of education, particularly education of the blind. The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. New York City, was able to satisfy his need by presenting a set of the Proceedings to the Library and an arrangement was entered into whereby the California State Library would make an index to the Proceedings and in recognition of the favor shown would furnish to the Institute a duplicate index on library cards usually used for such purpose. It occurred to the Principal of the New York Institute that others would be glad to have such an index and he presented to the Association at its meeting in Baltimore in 1920 a plan for printing it in a form convenient for binding with the later issues of the Proceedings. The plan was approved and a committee appointed to solicit subscriptions and publish the Index if practicable. The present volume is the result of the committee's successful labors. Through the half century from 1871 to 1920, a body of literature on the subject of educating the young blind had been produced but it was buried in the pamphlets which the Association of Instructors had published, buried because few students would be willing to traverse so many pages in search for information upon some specific topic as was necessary in the absence of an index. What eve-r pedagogy of the blind has been developed is for the most part embodied in these papers and discussions by the edu cahors of the blind at their biennial conventions. It is true that in the published Annual Reports of a few of the institutions it has been the practice to present thoughtful discussions of the work of training the young blind. And these with the Proceedings of the Association furnish prae tically the only text-book for the student of the problem how to educate the sightless. By this Index, therefore, a veritable mine of information has been opened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.