Division on Visual Impairments

DVI Quarterly Volume 59(3)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 2 The mission of Overbrook School for the Blind is to provide the best possible education and life skills training for children who are blind and visually impaired, just as our founder, Julius Friedlander, intended. A young teacher of the blind in Germany, Mr. Friedlander came to Philadelphia determined to establish a school here. He found several prominent Philadelphians ready to help him in his venture, and in March of 1832, he rented a building at 20 th and Race Streets, and called it The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Unfortunately, Mr. Friedlander died only six years later, but his school was already well established in Philadelphia and it continued to grow, offering quality education to the children of the area who were blind or visually impaired. In 1899, with the promise of more space, the school moved to its present location at 6333 Malvern Avenue. It was re- named Overbrook School for the Blind in 1946 because of its new location in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia. 1 Image 2: The front gate of Overbrook School for the Blind 2 56

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