Excerpt from Nat-Cent News, Vol. 17: January, 1987 All this is commendable and desirable, but I find one important element still miss ing that could have a great influence on future developments. That missing element is input from the deaf - blind population as a whole. Most of what has been accomplished to date has come through the efforts of dedicated, interested workers who believe that deaf-blind people can achieve worthwhile goals. For the most part, deaf-blind people have been accepting, but passive; they have been willing to accept what was offered, without making a special effort to express definite Opinions or preferences of their own. What is needed now is advocacy not Just the advocacy of single individuals, but advocacy from the deaf-blind community it self, expressed through developing leader ship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.