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197: 398:(CVAA) and established by the FCC, the NDBEDP will aid individuals with combined vision and hearing loss connect with family, friends and their community by distributing accessible communications technology. Perkins' and partners' outreach campaign to educate people on this program is called iCanConnect. It aims to inform the nearly one million people in the United States with some sort of combined hearing and vision loss on the types of equipment—e.g. screen-enlargement software, video phones and electronic refreshable braille displays—available to them free of charge. 31: 1692: 362:
text-to-speech output, visual display, and applications for teaching braille. This subsidiary of Perkins also partners with associations for the blind and partially sighted, education ministers and resellers around the globe in an effort to provide accessible equipment—including Perkins Braillers, brailler repair and
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In the 21st century, Perkins has expanded its mission online to include resources for families with blind and visually impaired children, and teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs). Perkins has also worked with local partners in Asian countries to host an online community for educators, caregivers
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Perkins partners with local groups in 67 countries: schools, universities, NGOs, nonprofits, government agencies, and parent networks—to educate and empower people who are blind, deaf/blind or visually impaired, and who may have additional disabilities. The organization disseminates resources, such
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shipping merchant and slave trader who began losing his sight about the time the school was established. In 1833, the school outgrew its first location, the Pleasant Street house of the father of founder Howe. That year Perkins donated his Pearl Street mansion as the school's second home. In 1839,
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Perkins Solutions concentrates on a broad array of assistive technology and accessibility assessment, training, and consulting. The range of Perkins Braillers ships to 175 countries and includes the Classic Brailler, the Next Generation Brailler and the Smart Brailler launched in 2012 with
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In February 2016, Perkins launched Perkins Access, a team of expert accessibility consultants who partner with organizations across all industries to improve customer experience, employee experience, and brand engagement for all humans, regardless of age, ability, or means of access.
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Special educators from other countries are also invited to the Watertown campus every year, for an intensive study of blindness and multiple-disability education. They can take back current information to their respective regions.
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visited Perkins in 1842 during a lecture tour of America and was amazed at the work Howe was doing with Laura Bridgman, a deaf-blind girl who had come to the school in 1837 from New Hampshire. He wrote about his visit in his book,
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as Perkins Braillers, funding, and expertise on the ground in these countries. One such example of this work in the African countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya is Perkins' role in the Kilimanjaro Blind Trust, Inc. (KBT).
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In 2011, Perkins completed construction of the Grousbeck Center for Students and Technology on its 38-acre campus in Watertown. This facility houses accessible technology for people who are blind or visually impaired.
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on a Web resource called PathsToLiteracy.org, an online hub for information related to literacy for students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities or deafblindness.
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On May 5, 2016, Perkins launched BlindNewWorld, a social change campaign aimed at helping the sighted population to be more inclusive of people who are blind and to make the world more accessible to them.
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at her family's home in Alabama. After working with her pupil at the Keller home, Sullivan returned to Perkins with Keller in 1888, and resided there intermittently until 1893.
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In 1951, David Abraham successfully manufactured the first Perkins Brailler. By 1977, about 100,000 Perkins Braillers had been produced and distributed worldwide.
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In 2022, Perkins launched the Howe Innovation Center, dedicated to catalyzing and convening the "DisabilityTech" industry, including bringing together
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Albert K. Gayzagian, the first former student and the first visually impaired person to be appointed to the Perkins Board of Trustees.
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Founded in 1829, Perkins was the first school for the blind established in the United States. The school was originally named the
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The Howe Building Tower from afar on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts
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teaching tool, at the Perkins Solutions division housed within the Watertown campus's former Howe Press.
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and was incorporated on March 2, 1829. The name was eventually changed to Perkins School for the Blind.
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across the street from the rest of campus, and is part of the larger Watertown Riverfront Park.
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first considered the idea of a school for blind children based upon his visits to Paris at the
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The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl
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to ensure that Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) be taught in mainstream schools.
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The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
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and was inspired to create such a school in Boston, but it was founded by
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National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
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This gift allowed the purchase of a more spacious building in
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Joseph B. Smith, musician and the first blind graduate of
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Perkins School for the Blind: The Campus History Series
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21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. The Diary of Bess Brennan
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The international nonprofit has also worked with the
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Buildings and structures in Watertown, Massachusetts
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as its first matron. This property was home to both
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in the United States. It has also been known as the
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Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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