The 1990 survey of the member schools of the Council of Schools for the Blind was a follow-up to earlier surveys (1985 and 1986). This article presents a demographic snapshot of residential schools in 1990, highlights important changes that occurred during the years between the surveys, and discusses the critical needs that school administrators project over the next several years.
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