Traditional histories of the blindness field concentrated on the accomplishments of a few heads of residential schools and blindness organizations, and a few inventers: mostly all male. Join APH museum director Mike Hudson as he explores the contributions of a myriad of women who added their own unique journeys to the story. Some will be familiar, like Austrian singer and composer Maria Theresa Von Paradis, and others you may be meeting for the first time, like Elisabeth Freund, who fled Nazi Germany in 1941 to a new career at her great uncle's pioneering school in Philadelphia. Let's hear it for the ladies, this month on Access Academy!

Instructor:  Michael Hudson

Instructor’s Title:  APH Museum Director

Instructor’s Affiliation: American Printing House for the Blind

Instructor’s Email: outreach@aph.org

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Learning Objectives:  

1) Study the history of personal achievements by women in the blindness field over time.

2) Examine individual and groups of women of historical significance to the blindness field, and the effect that historical events have had on women.

3) Challenge or expand the traditional historical understanding of the role of women in the blindness field.