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    Cotting School
    Cotting School
    Cotting School
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    Cotting School

    By David Manzo and Elizabeth Campbell Peters

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    Cotting School details the interesting history of this national leader in serving children with a broad spectrum of disabilities.


    In 1893, two pioneering orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Augustus Thorndike and Dr. Edward Bradford, saw the need to educate children whose physical challenges prevented them from attending school. As an experiment, they founded the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children in Boston. Modeled after 19th-century European institutions, the school was America's first for children with physical disabilities. Early classes were held in a church basement where Mary Perry volunteered to teach seven students. Tuition, a hot meal, and transportation in a horse-drawn carriage were free. Thanks to the leadership of the two doctors and board chairman Francis Joy Cotting, within 10 years the school was housed in an impressive, debt-free brick building. Renamed the Cotting School, the school is now located in Lexington and serves 130 day students from 74 communities. Staffed with highly skilled special education teachers; nurses; physical, occupational, and communication therapists; and dental and vision specialists, Cotting is a national leader in serving children with a broad spectrum of learning and communication disabilities, physical challenges, and complex medical conditions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateApr 7, 2008
    ISBN9781439620472
    Cotting School
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    David Manzo

    President David Manzo and director of annual giving and communications Elizabeth Campbell Peters trace Cotting's rich history using photographs= from the school's archives.

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