Helen Keller Services for the Blind

It also operates the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults in Sands Point, New York.

[1][2] On October 1, 1893, the Industrial Home for Blind Men was founded by Eben Porter Morford;[3] he became the superintendent.

During the 1960s, IHB founded the federally funded Anne Sullivan Macy Service for people who were deaf-blind.

In 1967 the Helen Keller National Center was established by a unanimous act of Congress, and IHB was chosen to operate the program, which provided comprehensive rehabilitation training for people with a severe dual sensory loss or impairment.

In 1983, IHB established a day treatment program for adults who are developmentally disabled and who are also blind or deaf-blind.