Identifier: reportofcommissi00unse (find matches)
Title: Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Commission is in possession of these facts concern-ing the 5,780 w^hose records our visitors have secured. CONSTEUCTIVE MeASUKES. They find: First. That no provision is made by the State for infants orchildren under five years of age and, in Greater New York whichwith its contiguous territory nuudxrs more than half of the blindof the State, none for blind children under eight years of age,many of whom are sent to Randalls Island or neglected in tene-ment houses. One private charity — the Sunshine Home inBrooklyn — cares for eighteen such children. The managers havemany more applications which neither their means nor their ac-commodations will permit them to receive. The State School atBatavia is overcrowded. Its youngest children live in the samebuilding with the older ones. The necessity for day nurseries,or creches, for mothers who are obliged to leave their blind chil-dren when they go out to w^ork, exists in Greater New York andprobably in other crowded centers of population.
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HLI.NU TUTOR IXSTKLCTIXG UOY WITH SIGHT. Commission on the Bmnd. 103 Kindergartens are needed for the blind children now uncaredfor tliroughoiit the State and m New York city in order that theymay learn the use of their hands and have such preliminary train-ing as will fit them for admission to the schools. Second. Better facilities are required for the physical develop-ment of the blind of school age, both in the State School and inthe New York Institution for the Blind. Third. A higher educational standard should be maintainedfor the blind than now exists. For a blind man to succeed, it isnecessary that his work shall not be merely as well, but betterdone than is that of those who see. Fourth. Provisions should be made for the separation of thementally weak from those of the blind who are otherwise normal.The presence of the former in the schools impedes the progTcss ofthe latter, while they themselves fail to receive the personal train-ing that their individual needs require. Fifth

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