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Minnesota State Academy for the Blind

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Type
  
Public

Superintendent
  
Terrence Wilding

Phone
  
+1 800-657-3634

Founded
  
1866

Established
  
1866

Principal
  
John Davis

District
  
Minnesota State Academies

Color
  
Maroon and Gold

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind

Website
  
Minnesota State Academy for the Blind Website

Address
  
se 55021, 400 6th Ave SE, Faribault, MN 55021, United States

Similar
  
Minnesota State Academy, Medford Public School, Faribault High School, Shattuck Mary's School, Cannon River Stem School

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Minnesota State Academy for the Blind (MSAB) (formerly known as the Braille and Sight Saving School) is a public school in Faribault, Minnesota, United States. Its mission is the education and life education of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind learners from birth to age 21. The school has a residential program and provides 24-hour programming including Braille, independent travel, assistive technologies, and individualized educational services. Students often have multiple disabilities and come from all regions of the state.

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The Minnesota Legislature established it in 1866, together with the nearby Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, which was established three years earlier (1863).

The Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library is an extension of the Academy for the Blind. It serves people of all ages everywhere in Minnesota with a collection of hundreds of thousands of items. It is funded by the state and federal governments.

Blind Department Building and Dow Hall at the State Academy for the Blind are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other facilities include Lysen Hall.

Minnesota state academy for the blind msab converts the wonder series to brail


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Minnesota State Academy for the Blind Wikipedia