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Hindrances To The Welfare And Progress Of State Institutions
It is with sincere regret that I am obliged to say in this connection, that the very call to the managers of the schools for the blind to join in the deliberations of the “National Conference of Charities and Corrections” is a striking illustration of such understanding. It shows conclusively, that the nature and scope of the education of sightless children is not as widely understood as it ought to be. In consequence of this imperfect knowledge, they are arbitrarily separated from the deaf mutes and are unjustly and indiscriminately classed with paupers, criminals and insane....
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Title: Hindrances To The Welfare And Progress Of State Institutions
Creator: Michael Anagnos (author)
Date: 1883
Format: Conference Paper
Publication: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of Charities and Corrections
Publisher: Midland Publishing Company, Madison, Wis.
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.215-218
Keywords: Advocacy; Almshouses; Blind; Charity; Crime; Education; Educational Institutions; England; Government; Government Agencies; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Michael Anagnos; National Conference Of Charities; Perkins School For The Blind; Physical Disability; Policy; Politics; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations