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The blind need not apply : a history of overcoming prejudice in the orientation and mobility profession /
From the Publisher: 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 f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlotte, NC :
Information Age Pub.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Critical concerns in blindness.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1: Challenging The 'Taken-For-Granted'
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Educational/social problem area
- Social regularities area
- Policy solution area
- Policy studies area
- 2: Constructing A House Of Cards
- Introduction
- Truth about blindness
- Implications for vocational rehabilitation
- Note
- 3: Battling The Giants In The Land
- Introduction
- Contribution of Newel Perry
- Influence of Jacobus Tenbroek
- Constructing a positive view of blindness
- Strengthening of the movement
- Conclusion
- 4: Good Intentions
- Introduction
- Blind center at Hines
- Training manual for orientors
- Note
- 5: Blind Need Not Apply
- Introduction
- Meeting the crisis
- Constructing the O & M profession
- Certification of O & M instructors
- Father Thomas Carroll
- 6: Power Of An Idea
- Introduction
- History of conflict in the blindness field
- Iowa experiment 1958-1978
- Blind O & M instructors in Nebraska
- Notes
- 7: Constructing A New Reality
- Introduction
- Context of the controversy
- Alternative O & M program
- Structured discovery
- National blindness professional certification board
- Ongoing conflicts
- References.