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The Blind Need Not Apply

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The Blind Need Not Apply examines the historical exclusion of blind individuals and the fight for their inclusion. The book highlights the progress made and challenges that remain in ensuring blind...
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  • 17 April 2007
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This book has been a work in progress. In the spring of 2000 I started this project and began to collect data and conduct interviews. I copied every article I could find in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and its predecessors Outlook for the Blind and New Outlook for the Blind. I was fortunate to locate Blindness the annual publication of the American Association of Workers for the Blind. One of the greatest finds was the library at the American Foundation for the Blind. The library contains dozens of volumes related to orientation and mobility. Within two years I had amassed a considerable collection of resources. I began working through the materials and along the way prepared some papers for various conferences. A dramatic increase in administrative responsibilities, as well as the tyranny of meeting grant deadlines, diverted me from giving concentrated effort to this book. All that changed as I reduced my workload in order to devote almost all my efforts over the past nine months to this project.

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Price: $54.00
Pages: 164
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Series: Critical Concerns in Blindness
Publication Date: 17 April 2007
ISBN: 9781593115746
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Disability: social aspects
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Preface.
Chapter 1. Challenging the Taken-for-Granted.
Chapter 2. Constructing a House of Cards.
Chapter 3. Battling the Giants in the Land.
Chapter 4. Good Intentions.
Chapter 5. The Blind Need Not Apply.
Chapter 6. The Power of an Idea.
Chapter 7. Constructing a New Reality.
References.