For the benefit of those who see
Subtitle: dispatches from the world of the blind
By: Rosemary Mahoney
Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition.
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780316043434
Subjects: Blind; Services for; Education; Teachers of the blind; Workers for the Blind
Description: In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind...She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training centre for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Vision; title: Braille Without Borders; title: The Blind Leading the Blind; title: The Neglected Senses; title: For the Benefit of Those Who See; title: Navigation; title: The Blind Leading the Sighted; title: Perception; title: Sight Regained; title: The Definition of Real.