# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S292
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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ramural sporting events of the blind,
pout the various State schools, highli
a different school each month. Thus Teen Time is attempt
be all things to all children that it might gain some for the S$;

The Board is happy to report that this method has met:
outstanding success. Teen Time is becoming well known and

received by the students and the superintendents of the s

As a result, its subscriptions, in three months, have grown,

234 to 450, even though the magazine is being sent only to t
is is better than 10 per cent of.a

children who ask for it. Th
children of that age group. Three State schools have also ix

duced Teen Time into their regu
Another phase of this work should include the sight-
children, children who are not totally blind, but whose vi
definitely impaired. The number of these children is alm
times that of blind children. In Ohio alone there are 1,033
saving children in 35 schools. These children require printed
rial of eighteen- and 24-point type in order to read. This type
printing is very costly, but as an experiment Teen Time. is:
being published in this large type, the only magazine relig

secular which has entered the field. ;
In the near future the Board must consider re-editin:
Concordia Sunday school material in Braille, and later on
e blind children to participate in regular Sunday.

type for th
classwork. Also the Catechism and Prayer Book shall be re-

and reprinted.
During the course of the past triennium a number of equ
have come to the Board to establish a Home for the Blin
cially for aged blind in our Church. As a result a surv
made of all our Homes for the Aged to inquire whether th
receive blind and integrate them with the residents of the hg
since such procedure is generally encouraged rather than toz
the blind in specific homes. The response of all our
Homes for the Aged, except one, indicated a definite
to accept the blind, and, accordingly, the Board has fel
advisable to consider this thought further for the present.
In conclusion we wish to acknowledge the splendid work
again during the past three years by our volunteer workerg
have given freely of their time for the transcribing of boa}
our Library and other Braille literature. Especially commet
has been the effort of the Lutheran Braille workers of Cal
who have done much work in transcribing portions of naa

tures in German Braille and the various Lutheran Houg
group of workers has worked

zine reports the int
stories, and stories a

Study Courses. While this