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0 6 minutes read Keller (in dark dress) received in Japan after World War II. Photo: American Foundation for the Blind.
Walk into any book store, and you are sure to find at least one children’s book about Helen Keller but you will have trouble finding any that mention she was a socialist. You would be lucky to find one that calls her an activist, or talks about her adult life at all. Even some books for adults only talk about Keller as a disability rights activist, stripping her lifelong work of its true revolutionary politics.
July 26 is the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act which passed in 1990, the same year of the first Disability Pride Parade in Boston. Although Keller died more than three decades before the ADA, her name is often invoked around this anniversary because her generation laid the groundwork for the political organizers of the 1970-90s who fought for and won the act.
Local Blind And Visually Impaired Students Navigate Challenges Of Remote Learning
Aerial view of Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, MA.
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Students and teachers had their worlds flipped upside down last year when the pandemic forced most to swap chalkboards for Zoom screens. A large part of teaching online, for many, became visual. But what about the challenges of online learning for those who are visually impaired or blind?
Our neighbors at Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, had to think quickly about ensuring their students still received a quality education and maintained community when they went remote. A sense of touch is fundamental to those without a sense of sight. So how did Perkins students, teachers and parents manage in a world that was suddenly socially distant?
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Titus Elementary School student Krish Rastogi-Wilson views the world a lot differently than his peers. Coming into the world with little to no vision changed his perspective.
But now, at just 9, he s helping others see, and understand, his view of things as he navigates school, camp and more, advocating for himself and others with visual impairment.
Krish has come a long way in his years of living with cortical visual impairment, also known as cerebral visual impairment or CVI. The brain-based condition, which impacts the eye’s connection to the brain, is the leading cause of visual impairment in children in the United States.