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November
2, 2007
Cotting School: A Pictorial History from Arcadia Publishing and written by David W. Manzo and Elizabeth Campbell Peters will be available in early 2008.
In 1893 pioneering orthopedic surgeons, Doctors Augustus Thorndike and 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 ten years, the School was housed in an impressive, debt-free brick building.
One hundred and fifteen years later, the School, renamed Cotting School, is 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.
Cotting’s President David Manzo, and Director of Annual Giving and Communications, Elizabeth Campbell Peters, trace the Cotting’s rich history using photographs from the School’s archives.
This book is made possible thanks to the generosity of US Trust, Boston, MA.
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