CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
Five Lectures
on
Blindness
By
KATE M. FOLEY
Home Teacher of the Blind California State Library
CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE SACRAMENTO 1919
Copyright 1919 By the California State Library.
CONTENTS
| PHOTOGRAPH | 4 |
| FOREWORD | 5 |
| THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BLINDNESS | 6 |
| THE BLIND CHILD AND ITS DEVELOPMENT | 14 |
| THE RE-EDUCATION OF THE BLIND ADULT | 23 |
| THE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC TOWARD THE BLIND | 32 |
| PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND CONSERVATION OF VISION IN ADULTS AND CHILDREN | 40 |
Miss Foley teaching a class of men at the Industrial Homefor the Adult Blind, Oakland, California.FOREWORD.
The following lectures were written primarily to be delivered at thesummer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at LosAngeles, in the summer of 1918. We are printing them, however, so thatthe information in them can be more widely distributed, since they arethe outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for theblind, and were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seekingto better the condition of the blind. They were addressed not to theblind, but to the seeing public, for the benefit that will accrue to theblind from a better understanding of their problems.
The successful work of Miss Foley as a student in the California Schoolfor the Blind, as a volunteer teacher, and in recent years as hometeacher for the California State Library, makes these lecturesparticularly important and authoritative.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BLINDNESS.
In view of the widespread interest now manifested in the blind and theirproblems—an interest deepened by reports from the warring countries—Ifeel that a knowledge of the psychology of blindness should prove ofgreat help to those wishing to take part in the re-education of thewar-blinded soldiers.
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