Stories
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Dyslexia and its misconceptions
Overcoming common myths about dyslexia only adds to the challenges of growing up with the condition. Madeleine Morley, who was diagnosed with dyslexia aged eight, goes into myth-busting mode and shares her personal experiences.
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The housing that gives hope to refugees
A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.
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The relationship between science and art
Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes; their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction / By Edwin John Mann.
Mann, Edwin John, 1812-Date: 1836- Pictures
Henshaw's Blind Asylum, Old Trafford, Manchester. Photograph by F. Frith & Co., ca. 1885 (?).
Date: 1885Reference: 5115iPart of: Frith's series- Ephemera
Bought of ... The Royal Blind Asylum & School : hair, wool & sea-grass mattrasses, straw palliasses, feather beds, bolsters & pillows, door mats & lobby matting, brass & iron bedsteads, bassinettes, baby linen baskets, grain sacks, ropes & twine, bedding cleaned and repaired, baskets of all sorts / Wm. Martin.
Martin, William.Date: [1992?]
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Statements of the education, employments, and internal arrangements, adopted at the Asylum for the Blind, Glasgow : with a short account of its founder, and general observations applicable to similar institutions.
Alston, John, 1778-1846.Date: [1842]
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Blind Asylum, Manchester, England. Line engraving, 1864.
Date: 1 June 1864Reference: 18289i