School

The significance of this latest achievement by one of America's leading pioneers in the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped will long be felt throughout the world. Buried and hidden away in almost every community in the United States are countless numbers of children who are regarded as too disabled to leave their homes and attend any kind of school with any kind of children. The School Henry Viscardi, Jr. tells how, out of searing memory of his own crippled childhood, he established a much needed school for some of these physically disabled children who for too long have been neglected and tragically isolated on "e;homebound"e; study. To start any school is not easy; to start the kind described in intimate detail here requires a man of Mr. Viscardi's stature. For incredulous as it may seem, he had to fight desperately and with all his resourcefulness to get such a simple idea going. How this fight was won, how the children were found and their parents won over, how an administration was formed and a faculty recruited, how fearful neighbors were brought to their unprejudiced senses, how the children reacted on the first day of school and later-these and many other dramatic events make up one of the great, true stories of our times. The School will make any reader cry forjoy at the incredible fortitude and perseverance of a handful of wonderful people under the guidance of a dedicated man. Henry Viscardi, Jr. is the author of a number of previously published books, including Give Us the Tools which describes best, perhaps, the not-too-dissimilar struggles he underwent in founding Abilities, Inc., the famed Long Island concern whose success gave rise first to its research wing, Human Resources Foundation, and now the new educational pilot program described in The School.