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Image 3: Students from Overbrook School for the Blind. One student performing in the Bell
Choir during the Eastern Schools for the Blind Music Festival. The second student is an
athlete practicing his stroke in the Kappen Aquatic Center. The third student is practicing her
new orientation and mobility skills.
Today, Overbrook School for the Blind serves approximately 200 students (ages 5 through
21) on campus and through our Summer Programs, which extends the school year for
qualified students into the summer months. The Early Intervention Program (birth
through five) provides at home guidance to the parents of 150 more children. In addition,
through the International Program, we reach each year thousands of children and adults in
Southeast Asia and China by training teachers and administrators how to instruct
additional teachers in their respective countries to work with visually impaired students.
Young children at Overbrook School for the Blind learn a variety of skills from counting
and building vocabularies to socializing in and out of the classroom. Older students study
standard curriculums such as math, science, history, literature, social studies and
technology. Because the students are visually impaired, they also – according to their
needs – learn to write and read braille, and to use technology specifically designed for the
blind and visually impaired as well as mainstream technology. They also learn essential
life skills ranging from preparing meals to traveling independently.
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