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Cotting School (Campus History: Massachusetts) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Manzo And Elizabeth Camp
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Sales Rank: 1171908
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 073855765X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780738557656
ASIN: 073855765X
Publication Date: April 2, 2008
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Product Description
In 1893, two pioneering orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Augustus Thorndike and Dr. Edward Bradford, saw the need to educate children whose physical challenges prevented them from attending school. As an experiment, they founded the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children in Boston. Modeled after 19th-century European institutions, the school was Americas first for children with physical disabilities. Early classes were held in a church basement where Mary Perry volunteered to teach seven students. Tuition, a hot meal, and transportation in a horse-drawn carriage were free. Thanks to the leadership of the two doctors and board chairman Francis Joy Cotting, within 10 years the school was housed in an impressive, debt-free brick building. Renamed the Cotting School, the school is now located in Lexington and serves 130 day students from 74 communities. Staffed with highly skilled special education teachers; nurses; physical, occupational, and communication therapists; and dental and vision specialists, Cotting is a national leader in serving children with a broad spectrum of learning and communication disabilities, physical
challenges, and complex medical conditions.
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