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{{Short description|Texas special public school}}
[[Image:TexasSchoolblind0.JPG|thumb|Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired]]
[[Image:TexasSchoolBlind.JPG|thumb|Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired]]
The '''Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired''' ('''TSBVI''') is a [[Texas]] special [[Public school (government funded)|public school]], in the continuum of statewide placements for students who have a visual impairment. It is considered a statewide resource to parents of these children and professionals who serve them. Students, ages 6 through 21, who are blind,
Founded in 1856, the school is currently located at 1100 West 45th Street in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] and serves not only the local community
==History==
On August 16, 1856, the [[Texas Legislature]] enacted a measure providing for the establishment of a Texas Asylum for the Blind in Austin. The state leased the [[Neill–Cochran House]] as a temporary site for the asylum while a permanent campus was constructed. The asylum facility was designed and built by [[Abner H. Cook]], a local architect who had recently designed both the Neill–Cochran House and the [[Texas Governor's Mansion]]. In 1857 the asylum moved into its new campus (now the [[University of Texas at Austin]]'s [[Little Campus]]), where it operated until the end of the [[American Civil War]] in 1865.<ref name="Little">{{Cite web|title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY – NOMINATION FORM (74002091)|website=[[National Park Service]]|date=August 13, 1974|url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NR/pdfs/74002091/74002091.pdf|accessdate=June 18, 2018}}</ref>
After having its facility commandeered by [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] forces for a year, the asylum was reopened in 1866 and occupied its original campus from then until 1915,<ref name="Little"/> while the program was renamed the Texas Blind Institute in 1905 and then the Texas School for the Blind in 1915. During [[World War I]] the School for the Blind was displaced by a military pilot training program, and it relocated to its current campus in 1917.<ref name="TSHA">{{Cite web|title=Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired|website=[[Handbook of Texas Online]]|publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]|first=James W.|last=Markham|first2=Paulette|last2=Delahoussaye|date=September 19, 2010|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kct25|accessdate=June 21, 2018}}</ref>
The state transferred control of the school to the [[Texas Education Agency]] in 1953, from which point the School for the Blind became a self-contained [[school district]]. In the late 1960s the school was integrated with the all-black [[Texas Blind and Deaf School]]. In 1989 the program was renamed the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.<ref name="TSHA"/>
==Student body==
{{Asof|2008}} 50% of the school's students are of high school age. TSBVI may take up to 150 boarding students. Usually, blind students in Texas attend school in their local school districts, which are obligated to educate them under the law. Students who attend TSBVI do so only after their parents and their schools and school districts all agree that TSBVI is best-equipped for their education.<ref name=Colloff>Colloff, Pamela. "[http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/out-of-sight/ Out of Sight]" ([https://archive.today/20160401201102/http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/out-of-sight/ Archive]). ''[[Texas Monthly]]''. August 2008. Retrieved on April 1, 2016.</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Texas|Schools}}
*[[Blindness and education]]
*[[Texas School for the Deaf]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.tsbvi.edu Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired]
{{Austin, Texas}}
▲*{{Handbook of Texas|id=TT/kct25|name=Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired}}
{{Schools in Travis County, Texas}}
{{Region 13 School Districts in Texas}}
{{State agencies of Texas}}
{{Schools for the blind in the United States}}
{{Public boarding schools in the United States}}
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[[Category:State agencies of Texas|School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Texas]]
[[Category:Schools for the blind in the United States]]
[[Category:Special schools in Texas]]
[[Category:Schools in Travis County, Texas]]
[[Category:Public K–12 schools in Texas]]
[[Category:Public boarding schools in the United States]]
[[Category:Boarding schools in Texas]]
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