Mobility specialist Barbara Nixon works with Garrett Knight, a student at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown. Her job entails helping students become more independent.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
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Mobility specialist Barbara Nixon works with Garrett Knight, a student at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown. Her job entails helping students become more independent.
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
When Barbara Nixon says she works at Perkins School for the Blind, the response inevitably is, "Oh, so you know sign language?" But Nixon, a mobility and orientation specialist, says unlike Helen Keller, the school's most famous alumna, most students here are not blind and deaf. (Full article: 912 words)
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