ChildVision - The National Education Centre for Blind Children is an Irish registered charity that operates as a not-for-profit organisation in partnership with the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education & Skills. It provides national services for disabled and visually impaired (MDVI) children and young people, including pre-school and early intervention services, family resource services, primary and secondary schooling supports, vocational training, residential services, therapy services, nursing and ophthalmic services, professional training, a national braille production service, an equine service and a children's library[1]
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| Predecessor | St Joseph's Centre for the Visually Impaired |
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| Type | Charity |
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Area served | Ireland |
Key people | Brian Allen (CEO) |
A school for blind boys, St Joseph's Asylum for the Male Blind, was founded at the Drumconda location by the Carmelites in 1859.[2] In 1955, the Rosminians were appointed by Arthur Barton, the archbishop of Dublin, to run services for the Blind in St Joseph's. The boys school, which became known as St Joseph's School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, was residential and was officially opened in 1960 by the Dept. of Education.
In 2012, St Joseph's became, ChildVision - the national education centre for the blind children in Ireland, a rebranding mainly concerned to emphasise the national role of the organisation.[3] In 2014, the Rosminian order sold the lands in St Joseph's, but took out a 25-year lease on the houses and buildings which it has stated it will use for ChildVision.[4]
References edit
- ^ Annual Report & Accounts 2015 (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ The Missionary College of All Hallows (1842-1891) Archived 2017-11-14 at the Wayback Machine by Kevin Condon CM, All Hallows College, Dublin.
- ^ Annual Report & Accounts 2012 (PDF). 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ Religious Order to sell 17 acre campus in Drumcondra by Jack Fagan, Commercial Property, Irish Times, 17 September 2014.