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The New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a state special education school with a residential campus in Alamogordo, New Mexico and a preschool in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It operates outreach programs throughout the state. The school has operated under several names: New Mexico Institute for the Blind (1903–1925), New Mexico School for the Blind (1925–1954), New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped (1954–2004), and New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (2004–present). ==History== Education for the blind started in New Mexico in the 1893–1894 school year at the state Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (the present-day New Mexico School for the Deaf).〔 〕 The school had difficulty attracting blind students, and William Ashton Hawkins, a member of the territorial legislature from Alamogordo, introduced and succeeding in 1903 in securing passage of a bill to create the New Mexico Institute for the Blind, to be located in Alamogordo.〔 The city of Alamogordo and the county of Otero donated of land for the school, and the land was cleared and construction begun.〔 The Institute first opened its doors in September 1906 with a class of 21 students.〔 A preschool program was started in 1975, initially in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, but the Santa Fe program was soon discontinued and the Albuquerque program continues today.〔 The school was renamed the New Mexico School for the Blind in 1925,〔 the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped in 1954,〔 and the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 2004.〔 〕 Elizabeth Garrett, composer of New Mexico's state song ''O Fair New Mexico'' and daughter of Sheriff Pat Garrett, was blind and was a teacher at the school from 1907 to 1915.〔〔 〕〔 〕 She composed the school song.〔〔 〕 She was Vice-President of the school's Board of Regents in 1931 and 1932.〔 The girls' dormitory, built in 1963, is named after her.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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