Excerpt from Nat-Cent News, Vol. 31: Winter 2001 Now that we have completed the first full year of a new century and a new millennium, it seems appropriate to review the progress that has been made in providing much needed programs as well as aids and devices for deaf blind citizens in the United States. The last fifty years of the twentieth century in particular, brought tremendous changes in rehabilitation and training programs for all disabled people. A host of new technologies were developed (and are still developing) to help disabled people overcome the limitations of their disabilities through use of assistive devices and technologies that today provide disabled individuals with a growing sense of independence. 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.