ChildVision - The National Education Centre for Blind Children is an Irish registered charity that operates as a not-for-profit organisation in partnership with the

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and the Department of Education & Skills. It provides national services for disabled and visually impaired (MDVI) children and young people, including pre-school and early intervention services, family resource services, primary and secondary schooling supports, vocational training, residential services, therapy services, nursing and ophthalmic services, professional training, a national braille production service, an equine service and a children's library A school for blind boys, St Joseph's Asylum for the Male Blind, was founded at the Drumconda location by the

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in 1859. In 1955, the

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were appointed by Arthur Barton, the archbishop of Dublin, to run services for the Blind in St Joseph's. The boys' school, which became known as ''St Joseph's School for the Blind and Visually Impaired'', was residential and was officially opened in 1960 by the Dept. of Education. In 2012, St Joseph's became, ''ChildVision - the national education centre for the blind children in Ireland'', a rebranding mainly concerned to emphasise the national role of the organisation. In 2014, the Rosminian order sold the lands in St Joseph's, but took out a 25-year lease on the houses and buildings it stated it will use for ChildVision.Religious Order to sell 17 acre campus in Drumcondra
by Jack Fagan, Commercial Property, Irish Times, 17 September 2014.

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External links

ChildVision/ Official website
Non-profit organisations based in Ireland