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"In a rare collaboration, Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles and photographer Nicholas Nixon explore the lives of children in three Boston-area settings: a Cambridge elementary school, Perkins School for the Blind, and the elite Boston Latin School. A microcosm of American schoolchildren today, the students photographed by Nixon range from the profoundly challenged, at Perkins, to the most gifted. Nixon's penetrating portraits, some accompanied by comments by or about the children, alternate with a three-part essay by Dr. Coles, himself a graduate of Boston Latin and intimately familiar with the other two schools. Exploring the students' inner lives with extraordinary sensitivity, Dr. Coles also recalls key moments that helped to shape his own very influential outlook."--Jacket.

Blind children --- Students --- Education

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Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that anthropologists ask routinely, but which are commonly avoided in everyday life because they touch on sensitive matters. Based on fieldwork in Israel, the book constitutes an ethnography of blind Israelis. It starts by focusing on intimate issues of the management of the sightless body, goes on to discuss the role of the blind person in the domestic setting, and moves to issues of how the blind person strives to attain material requirements. Finally, the book relates the way blind people cope with problems of associating with both blind and sighted people in arenas of leisure activity and public affairs. Deshen's book aims to present a truthful, dignified, fully human depiction, in the tradition of socio-cultural anthropology.

BLIND --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Blind --- Social Science --- Social science

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Individuals who are congentially deaf-blind face the same challenges as those who become deafblind later in life, but they have not had the same opportunity to develop the communications sills and a conceptual base needed to construct an understanding of the world. The contributors address identification of deafblindness, planning and intervention, development, family support, and education. In this collection of leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been dead-blind since birth or from a very early age.

Deafblind people. --- Deafblind people --- Blind-deaf --- Deaf-blind people --- People with disabilities --- Blind --- Deaf --- Services for.

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A history of perceptions of the blind and of their integration or lack thereof in French society, this book introduces us to a host of fictional and real individuals and paints a moving picture of their advances and disappointments, concluding with the triumphant invention of Louis Braille.

Blind --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Blindness --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- History. --- Patients

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Blind --- Deafblind women --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Blindness --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- Blind-deaf women --- Women with disabilities --- Psychology --- Patients --- Kleege, Georgina, --- Keller, Helen, --- Keller, Helen