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Overbrook School for the Blind (OSB) prepares our students—all of whom are blind, visually impaired or living with other challenges—to have the greatest opportunity to experience active and fulfilling lives.

Ours is a school where compassion, dedication, expertise, and instructional excellence are immediately evident. At OSB, teams of highly-qualified teachers and specialists work seamlessly to create a caring, can-do environment. Each and every day, our historic 27-acre campus in the Overbrook Farms section of West Philadelphia, is bustling with activity is our students work, play, and in some cases, live in an extraordinary set of integrated buildings that have been adapted to meet the multiple needs of our students.

Founded in 1832, OSB serves approximately 200 students (ages 5 through 21) on campus. Our Early Intervention Outreach program (birth through age three) provides at-home guidance and care to the parents of 175 additional families. Our Itinerant Services serve students in Charter and Public Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding area (K-12). Rounding out its programmatic footprint, OSB's International Program reaches thousands of children and adults in Southeast Asia and China by training teachers and administrators how to instruct additional teachers to work with the blind and the visually impaired.

At Overbrook School for the Blind, we follow each student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) to educate the whole child. We employ more TVIs than any school in the state of PA and an entire related services team for students in the areas of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language therapy, orientation and mobility, counseling, and much more. Our faculty also includes instructors who have been trained to work with students who have been diagnosed with Cortical Visual Impairment.