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Title: Five Lectures on Blindness

Author: Kate M. Foley

Release Date: July 30, 2007 [EBook #22170]

Language: English

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CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY

FIVE LECTURES

ON

BLINDNESS

By

KATE M. FOLEY

Home Teacher of the Blind California State Library

CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE SACRAMENTO 1919

Copyright 1919 By the California State Library.

CONTENTS

PHOTOGRAPH 4

FOREWORD 5

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BLINDNESS 6

THE BLIND CHILD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT 14

THE RE-EDUCATION OF THE BLIND ADULT 23

THE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC TOWARD THE BLIND 32

PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND CONSERVATION OF VISION
IN ADULTS AND CHILDREN 40

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[Illustration: Miss Foley teaching a class of men at the Industrial Home
for the Adult Blind, Oakland, California.]

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FOREWORD.

The following lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the
summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los
Angeles, in the summer of 1918. We are printing them, however, so that
the information in them can be more widely distributed, since they are
the outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for the
blind, and were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seeking
to better the condition of the blind. They were addressed not to the
blind, but to the seeing public, for the benefit that will accrue to the
blind from a be