Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

The Industrial Home for the Blind, in cooperation with the United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, has launched a demonstration and research project providing for the development of a regional rehabilitation service for deaf-blind persons. This project, encompassing some fifteen states from Maine to North Carolina, will offer a full range of rehabilitation services, incorporated insofar as possible, into the general agency program. Among the features of the service will be special efforts to: 1) organize the region, 2) organize the local community, 3) train state and local agency personnel, 4) reduce the isolation of deaf-blind persons, 5) employ a total team approach, and 6) educate local communities to the needs and potentialities of deaf-blind persons. From time to time, reports will be issued concerning progress made in the project and reflecting the results of research carried on in association with it.

The following is a letter by Edgar A. Ferguson, Jr., of New York, to his doctor, discussing his philosophical views on blindness, occasioned by his own loss of sight some five or six years ago. Mr. Ferguson is an inventor in the drug field, and a co-author of many medical articles.—Ed.