Hadley School for the Blind
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Hadley School for the Blind is a distance education
school for blind
and visually impaired people, their families, and blindness service professionals. The school is located in a suburb of Chicago: Winnetka
, Illinois.
Founded in 1920 by William A. Hadley
, a Chicago high school teacher who lost his sight at age 55, and Dr. E.V.L. Brown, the Hadley School for the Blind offers classes free-of-charge to its blind and visually impaired students and their families and affordable tuition classes to blindness professionals. Today, the Hadley School is still delivering courses directly to students’ homes in four formats: Braille
, large print, audio and online.
Hadley has broad, international reach. The school serves 10,000 students each year from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Hadley offers about 100 courses in topics such as Braille, independent living, high school academics, eye conditions, technology, supporting a blind family member, and recreation and leisure activities.
The mission of The Hadley School for the Blind is to promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for blind people, their families and blindness service providers.
Hadley relies on contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations to fund its programs.
Of significant note, one of the executive directors of the school, Richard Kinney, was himself deaf and blind.
Distance education
Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom...
school for blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
and visually impaired people, their families, and blindness service professionals. The school is located in a suburb of Chicago: Winnetka
Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka is an affluent North Shore village located approximately north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Winnetka was featured on the list of America's 25 top-earning towns and "one of the best places to live" by CNN Money in 2011...
, Illinois.
Founded in 1920 by William A. Hadley
William A. Hadley
William Allen Hadley is the founder of the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, IllinoisWhen you think of the other fellow only and not yourself, your own problem fades into insignificance; in unselfishness lies the real thrill of being alive. - William A. HadleyThe school was founded in 1920...
, a Chicago high school teacher who lost his sight at age 55, and Dr. E.V.L. Brown, the Hadley School for the Blind offers classes free-of-charge to its blind and visually impaired students and their families and affordable tuition classes to blindness professionals. Today, the Hadley School is still delivering courses directly to students’ homes in four formats: Braille
Braille
The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing.Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two...
, large print, audio and online.
Hadley has broad, international reach. The school serves 10,000 students each year from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Hadley offers about 100 courses in topics such as Braille, independent living, high school academics, eye conditions, technology, supporting a blind family member, and recreation and leisure activities.
The mission of The Hadley School for the Blind is to promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for blind people, their families and blindness service providers.
Hadley relies on contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations to fund its programs.
Of significant note, one of the executive directors of the school, Richard Kinney, was himself deaf and blind.