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Field Work Of The Massachusetts Commission For The Blind
I hope that we can show you that we cannot expect to provide for the blind as though they were a defective group to be sifted out of the population and isolated. (There is, to be sure, a defective group among the blind as among the seeing, but that is a problem in itself.) The problem of the blind is that of a handicapped group whose welfare is bound up with the life of the community....
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Title: Field Work Of The Massachusetts Commission For The Blind
Creator: Lucy Wright (author)
Date: April 20, 1908
Format: Article
Publication: The Outlook for the Blind
Source: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Location: vol.2, no.1, pp.118-124
Keywords: Advocacy; Blind; Disease; Employment; Government Agencies; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Lucy Wright; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Commission For The Blind; Opthamalia Neonatorum; Prevention; Public Health & Welfare; Sensory Disability; Service Organizations; Sheltered Workshop; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Vocational Rehabilitation; Work
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy