Education and Assistance to the Blind: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 14 ... and Various Other Bills ...

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Considers. H.R. 14 and numerous related bills, to encourage aid program coordination among organizations for blind and protect rights of blind persons to join such organizations. H.R. 1855 and numerous related bills, to establish a National Advisory Committee for the Blind to study problems and needs. Focuses on blind educational and training needs and occupational opportunities.
 

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Page 454 - Central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with corrective glasses, or central visual acuity of more than 20/200 if there is a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye.
Page 598 - ... tend to shift from legislator to bureaucrat in conformity to the adage, "where power rests, there influence will be brought to bear." This growing tendency for interest groups to participate in the formulation and execution of policy, irrespective of legislative provision, can be supported on at least three grounds: first, that such group representation is desirable to equalize opportunities for protecting and promoting respective interests; second, that the preparation of detailed regulations...
Page 655 - It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable.
Page 609 - That for the purpose of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in striving to make themselves selfsupporting...
Page 601 - In the performance of its functions the Commission is authorized to: (a) Establish advisory boards to advise with and make recommendations to the Commission on legislation, policies, administration, research, and other matters, provided that the Commission issues regulations setting forth the scope, procedure, and limitations of the authority of each such board...
Page 591 - Participation by these groups in the rulemaking process is essential in order to permit administrative agencies to inform themselves and to afford adequate safeguards to private interests.
Page 508 - The operation of the vending stand program, we feel, necessitates maintaining a close control by the Federal Government through the licensing agency with respect to both equipment and stock, as well as the actual supervision of the operation of each individual stand. It is therefore our belief that the program would fail if the blind stand managers were permitted to operate without control.
Page 497 - Blind is the complete integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality. This objective involves the removal of legal, economic, and social discriminations ; the education of the public to new concepts concerning blindness ; and the achievement by each and every blind person of the right to exercise to the fullest his individual talents and capacities.
Page 597 - Congress, it was charged specifically with the 'promotion and development of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States. ' Organized business worked actively for the passage of the measure setting up the new bureau and has since then looked upon the department, not unreasonably, as its special source of sympathetic governmental assistance.
Page 618 - Department were the National Federation of the Blind and the American Foundation for the Blind.

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