(323) 464-5052
Nancy Cohen, Principal
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Message From Principal Nancy Cohen
Dear Parents and Educators, Welcome to the Frances Blend Website! We invite you to take a tour of our Website and learn all about us. As the only day school for the Blind west of the Mississippi, we have a 'state of the art' operation. We love special kids and we provide an outstanding educational environment. After you visit us on line, pick up the phone and make an appointment to visit our school. We look forward to serving your child. Sincerely, Nancy Cohen, Principal |
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NEW PROGRAMS: Meeting the Needs of the Whole Student
 The Daily Living Skills Room: We teach our students how to plan a healthy meal, shop at the supermarket, cook, set the table, wash their clothes, make their beds, comb their hair, brush their teeth and many other necessary life skills.
 The Sensory Motor Room: We use the sensory motor room to help students develop fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and orientation and mobility skills. The occupational therapist and the orientation and mobility specialists use the room to reinforce specific skills. Blind students benefit from the sensory motor equipment. Also, we use the sensory motor room for students with autism who require sensory pressure to regulate their nervous systems.
 The Sensory Garden and Water Fountains: We use the sensory garden as an outdoor classroom to teach students science, mathematics, reading, language arts, daily living skills, nutrition and the value of working with living things. It is also a place to enhance tactile and aromatic senses. Our students require a ‘hands on’ curriculum.
"IMAGINARIUM" - The Tile Tactile Wall and Water Fountain: A tactile wall that teaches science, language arts, mathematics, and art. Our teachers and our school librarian read to groups of students while the students sit on the benches around the water fountain. Students increase language development when they sit and talk together around the fountain and when they explore the tactile wall.
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Student Eligibility
The students at Blend have multiple disabilities.
Every student has at least two or more of these disabilities:
| Visual impairment including blindness | Other health impairment |
| Traumatic brain injury | Mental retardation |
| Speech or language impairment | Low incidence disability |
| Specific learning disability | Deaf-Blindness |
| Orthopedic impairment: | Autism |
| Click here for details about the disabilities of the students at Blend. | |