ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the effects of the separate experiences on the cultural heritage of older students with disabilities at the end of their special school careers. The charitable foundation of California School for the Blind dates to March 1860, and was originally formed as a school for students with hearing, visual impairments. The chapter also discusses the school, and were making choices about what they wanted to do when they finished school. Diego’s earliest experiences of bonding were at home, and in the immediate vicinity of his family. In several key respects, Diego’s most important experience of learning was the passive exclusion experienced as child at public school. In 1980, California School for the Blind moved to Fremont, in Almeda county, and further around the San Francisco Bay, where its campus is today. The school itself had a full academic curriculum, and had purpose-built classes and labs for subjects such as art and science, large library and many computing facilities.
