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Disability services

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Disability services

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Fisher Road Special School

Northcott Disability Services

Paraquad NSW

Quota Club

Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind Children

Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney

Vision Australia

Boy Scouts' visit to the Royleston Crippled Boys' Home for State Wards, Glebe May 1925

Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Darlington c1873

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Disability services

Fisher Road Special School

Public school in Dee Why established in 1953, catering for students between the ages of 4 and 18 who have a moderate to severe intellectual disability.

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Northcott Disability Services

Charity established by the Rotary Club of Sydney in response to the growing number of children left with disabilities caused by illnesses such as polio and tuberculosis.

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Paraquad NSW

Support organisation for people with spinal cord injuries, which provides clinical services, care and accommodation.

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Quota Club

One of the oldest international service organizations for women, especially for service empowering women and children and to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired.

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Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind Children

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Charitable organisation that educated deaf, dumb and blind children, and became one of Sydney's large charities. It moved to North Rocks in 1961, leaving its grand building to become part of the University of Sydney.

Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney

Cottage nursing facility established in 1899 by Susan Schardt, who herself being blind from birth, became aware of the accommodation needs of patients being discharged from hospital as 'incurable'.

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Vision Australia

National agency which was formed following the merger of the Royal Blind Society (RBS), the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (RVIB), Vision Australia Foundation (VAF), and the National Information Library Services (NILS) in July 2004.

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Boy Scouts' visit to the Royleston Crippled Boys' Home for State Wards, Glebe May 1925

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Sydney Mail, June 3, 1925, p19)

Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Darlington c1873

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[on4_40169 / Home and Away 40169]

Social welfare