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Every child should have the opportunity to find their place in the world.
Connecting entrepreneurs with the disability community to create a more accessible world.
Sustainable partnership and collaboration are the key to creating lasting change everywhere.
We’re making a difference around the world, evolving our best practices, training teachers, and building education systems.
Perkins sets standards and builds networks to sustain and strengthen teaching, learning and community life around the world.
We work to transform childrens’ futures through the power of teacher training.
Perkins welcomes people from around the world to train to teach children with complex disabilities.
Perkins works to get children the support they need around the world.
Perkins India works to identify children with complex disabilities and connect them to the services they need to thrive.
in the U.S. have a disability
around the world have a disability
of children with disabilities in low and middle-income countries aren’t in school
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Sandy Lacey Howe Innovation Center“Disability: The world’s largest minority. The world’s most diverse minority. The only minority group anyone can join at any moment in their lives. And at some point, if we live long enough, we will likely age into the community”
Daniela Gissara International Partnerships“My humble call to action for you all is to believe that every child can learn. To believe that we teachers need more support to help children with disabilities learn. So then together, we can act to build a world where everyone belongs.”
Rachel Bennett CVI Now“Perkins is leading the way in making sure parents, teachers, and medical professionals have access to the tools and resources they need to identify CVI as soon as possible, helping children with this leading cause of blindness access their world.”
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.
Playing music, drawing and painting, making tactile sculptures of clay and cardboard — making art accessible helps kids with disabilities in many ways.
Perkins Forward looks at the unique challenges in the world of disabilities and visual impairment, and the people who are working to solve them.
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