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Traveling Exhibit from American Printing House for the Blind to Visit TSBVI

Abstract: Information on the upcoming visit by the APH Callahan Traveling Museum to Texas School Blind and Visually Impaired in August and September of 2006.

Key Words: News & Views, lind, visually impaired, deafblind, TSBVI sesquicentennial, APH Callahan Traveling Museum

Callahan Traveling Museum Exhibit, on loan from the American Printing House for the Blind of Louisville, Kentucky, presents "In Touch with Knowledge: The Educational History of Blind People." This traveling museum is coming to Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in August and September, 2006. This exhibit draws on the Callahan Museum's unique collection and extensive research on the history of the education of blind people. It is the only museum in the country devoted to this history.

IN TOUCH WITH KNOWLEDGE includes original artifacts, reproductions, graphics, tactile exhibits, and hands-on activities. Braille labels and audio text and descriptions provide accessibility.

The four components that make up the exhibit are:

· Hands-On Reading and Writing - the evolution of tactile writing for blind people from the first experiments in the eighteenth century to the development of braille and the invention of the braille writer.
· Hands-On Geography - from the first hand-stitched and molded paper maps to a contemporary tactile, talking globe.
· Hands-On Mathematics - the quest for a practical way to make math calculations accessible to blind people, beginning with peg and board devices in the 18th century and ending with the Nemeth braille code and talking calculators.
· Hands-On Science - learning science using natural history specimens, philosophical apparatus, and anatomical models and highlighting the contributions of blind scientists, past and present.

Each of the four components of IN TOUCH WITH KNOWLEDGE includes original artifacts, reproductions, graphics, tactile exhibits, and hands-on activities. Braille labels and audio text and descriptions provide accessibility.

For more information about this special event and other events marking the Sesquicentennial Celebration of TSBVI, visit the TSBVI website at <http://www.tsbvi.edu/school/sesq/index.htm>.

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