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About Perkins. We are the worldwide leader in education services for children and young adults who are blind and visually impaired with multiple disabilities. An international NGO, we are infinitely innovating to solve longstanding and emerging problems facing our communities, our students and our families. This is who we are Play video.
Perkins School for the Blind India Foundation. Perkins School for the Blind India Foundation (Perkins India) is a Non-Profit Organization in India, governed by its independent Board of Directors, and supervised by an Advisory Council. Perkins India is the independent affiliate of the US-based Perkins School for the Blind, which provides technical assistance as needed to Perkins India.
Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, was founded in 1829 and is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It has also been known as the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Perkins manufactures its own Perkins Brailler, which is used to print embossed, tactile books for the blind; and the Perkins SMART Brailler, a braille teaching tool, at the Perkins Solutions division housed within the Watertown campus's former Howe Press.
Perkins School for the Blind is the school you can trust to deliver the very best education and services for your child. Perkins serves students with visual impairments, CVI, deafblindness and CHARGE from birth through age 22. Our continuum of services addresses every need, ability and age – infancy through college prep. We offer day and residential programs on our campus, and direct and consultative services in public schools. ...
The Perkins mission is to prepare children and young adults who are blind with the education, tools and skills they need to realize their potential.
Founded in 1829 as the nation's first chartered school for the blind, Perkins is a world-renowned center of excellence in the education of people who are blind, deafblind, or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities. The idea for the school was first conceived by Dr. John Dix Fisher, an influential reformer of 19th-century Boston and physician who made great contributions to the understanding of contagious diseases, and helped found notable institutions in Boston ...
Perkins School for the Blind is the school you can trust to deliver the very best education and services for your child. Perkins serves students with visual impairments, including CVI, deafblindness, CHARGE, and multiple disabilities, from birth to age 22. We offer day and residential programs on our historic campus, and we integrate the Expanded Core Curriculum across all learning opportunities as well as emphasize instruction in self-determination, self-advocacy, and critical social skills
A brief round up of our programs and people who are lighting up the Perkins India canvas. Learn, up skill, and play are the three prominent themes around which our narrative evolves. कहानी. Newsletter: February 2023. कहानी.
Perkins School for the Blind India Foundation. Perkins School for the Blind India Foundation (Perkins India) is a Non-Profit Organization in India, governed by its independent Board of Directors, and supervised by an Advisory Council. Perkins India is the independent affiliate of the US-based Perkins School for the Blind, which provides technical assistance as needed to Perkins India.
In addition to over 75,000 digital and cassette titles, 20,000 braille titles, 100 audio and braille magazines and 12,000 large print books, the Perkins Library offers audio-described Blu-Ray and DVD movies, downloadable books and magazines, a braille awareness kit, museum passes and instructional music materials.
