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Article: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE'S SPECIAL EDUCATION - VISUAL IMPAIRMENT PROGRAM AWARDED $497,675

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November 4, 2009
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SPARTANBURG, S.C., Nov. 3 -- The University of South Carolina Upstate Campus issued the following news release:

The year 2009 is "the bicentennial anniversary year of the birth of Louis Braille, who, by inventing the means of reading by touch, opened the world of literacy to individuals who are blind," points out James Kirby, Commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind.

How appropriate, then, that the University of South Carolina Upstate's Special Education--Visual Impairment Program in the School of Education recently received a grant for $497,675 from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the United States Department of Education. This grant will ...

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