| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 148 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical concerns in blindness series
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Critical concerns in blindness.
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| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Blind -- Orientation and mobility -- United States -- History.
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Blind -- Orientation and mobility. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Blind -- Services for -- United States -- History.
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Blind -- Services for. |
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Orientation and mobility instructors -- United States -- History.
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Orientation and mobility instructors. |
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Discrimination against people with disabilities -- United States -- History.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ferguson, Ronald J., 1956- Blind need not apply. Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., ©2007 9781593115746 (DLC) 2006032367 (OCoLC)72161813 |
| ISBN |
9781607525806 (electronic book) |
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1607525801 (electronic book) |
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9781593115746 |
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1593115741 |
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9781593115753 |
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159311575X |
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9781617352645 |
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1617352640 |
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