The Girl Scout Movement in Schools for the Blind

Abstract

Milton, the blind, who looked on Paradise! Beethoven, deaf, who heard vast harmonies! Byron, the lame, who climbed towards Alpine skies!

Who pleads a handicap, remembering them?

—V. A. Storey

If we want civilization to march forward it will march not only on the feet of healthy children, but beside them, shoulder to shoulder, must go those others—those children we have called handicapped—the lame ones, the blind, … All these children are ready to be enlisted in this moving army, ready to make their contribution to human progress; to bring what they have of intelligence, of capacity, of spiritual beauty.—From “The Handicapped Child,” one of the reports of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.