Henry Viscardi

The School (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The significance of this latest achievement by one of America's leading pioneers in the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped will long be felt throughout the world. Buried and hidden away in almost every community in the United States are countless numbers of children who are regarded as too disabled to leave their homes and attend any kind of school with any kind of children. The School Henry Viscardi, Jr. tells how, out of searing memory of his own crippled childhood, he established a much needed school for some of these physically disabled children who for too long have been neglected and tragically isolated on "homebound" study. To start any school is not easy; to start the kind described in intimate detail here requires a man of Mr. Viscardi's stature. For incredulous as it may seem, he had to fight desperately and with all his resourcefulness to get such a simple idea going. How this fight was won, how the children were found and their parents won over, how an administration was formed and a faculty recruited, how fearful neighbors were brought to their unprejudiced senses, how the children reacted on the first day of school and later-these and many other dramatic events make up one of the great, true stories of our times. The School will make any reader cry forjoy at the incredible fortitude and perseverance of a handful of wonderful people under the guidance of a dedicated man. Henry Viscardi, Jr. is the author of a number of previously published books, including Give Us the Tools which describes best, perhaps, the not-too-dissimilar struggles he underwent in founding Abilities, Inc., the famed Long Island concern whose success gave rise first to its research wing, Human Resources Foundation, and now the new educational pilot program described in The School.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Viscardi Center
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1964
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798987161739
• Artikelnr.: 66301163

Autorenporträt

Dr. Henry Viscardi, Jr.Born in 1912 Henry Viscardi, Jr. is today, one of the world's most highly respected figures in the fields of rehabilitation and education. He has devoted his life to ensuring that severely disabled individuals have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential as human beings. He has always believed that living proof is the most persuasive. In 1952 he founded the internationally famed National Center for Disability Services in Albertson, Long Island. Through its famous Henry Viscardi School and Work Center he has shown the world that there really are no disabled people-- only people with varying degrees of ability-not disability. Henry Viscardi has been an advisor to every president beginning with Franklin Roosevelt on the affairs of our nation's disabled. He holds citations from leading societies, universities and professional doctorates in international organizations, and has been awarded law, education, science, humane letters and literature many honorary degrees, including in addition to universities in America. This includes universities in England, Japan, Korea and Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a recipient of the American Exemplar Medal from the Freedom Foundation of valley Forge. In 1975, Dr. Viscardi received the New York State Board of Regents' James E. Allen Jr. Memorial Award for his great contributions to education. The National Rehabilitation Association presented him with its highest honor, the President's Award Medal, and the American Medical Association in l95l presented him with the Outstanding Service Citation, given, only four times in its one hundred and thirty year history and never before awarded to a non-medical recipient. In 1983 he received the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans and was appointed by the Congress to the National board of the Congressional Award. In 1992 he received the andrus Award from the American Association of Retired Persons and the America's Award at the John F. Kennedy center in Washington D.C. He and his wife, Lucile, live in Kings Point, Long Island and have raised four lovely daughters, They have nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.