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institution for the blind with complicated defects. 371
to communicate to them by this means a knowledge and a reasonable
conception of the world in which they live, and to inspire them with the desire and
the skill to devote their abilities to useful work.
Photo. K. & A. Wikneh, Vänersborg.
Teaching blind deaf-mutes geography, by means of a raised map of Sweden.
Gradually the idea arose of establishing a special institution for such hapless
children. Support was given by Queen Sophia, who from the very beginning
had shown an active interest in the school, and the present official name of
the institution is a token of gratitude to its exalted patroness; other persons
interested in the question also lent their assistance, and in 1886 the Riksdag
consented to a Royal proposal for a maximum grant of 2 000 kronor a
year. The establishment of the institution was thus rendered possible, and it
was opened at Skara on October 10th 1886, under the name of »School Home
for Blind Deaf-Muies», with four pupils, which number was in the following year
increased by one. Sincc the year 1890 the institution has enjoyed 5 000 kronor
a year for the support of the training of the blind deaf-mutes.
Gradually the School Home, which was removed in 1892 to Vänersborg, was
enlarged so as to admit also blind feeble-minded, for the care and support of
whom a grant was now made by the State.
For the blind deaf-mutes and blind feeble-minded who had gone through the
actual school a working home was erected in 1905, which fulfils an important
task, as the pupils leaving the school, even the most developed of them, naturally
find themselves in a most helpless condition to face the world outside the
school doors. The working home has been founded with the assistance of the
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