hello welcome to the Florida School for
the Deaf and Blind my name is DJ I'm
John and I'm Eric it was set up in 1885
this is total of 85 acres and there's 44
buildings on campus you ready for the
tour let's go
right behind me is Cramer Hall is to
death elementary school building
and here we have Walker hide in the
dental school Illin
this building right behind me is PO Paul
is for the deaf high school come on in
you
this is the garden center teachers teach
students how to grow flowers and plants
we sell them out to a community if
you're interested come buy some this
building is Coleman we have our health
care center the infirmary we have the
dentists we have physical therapists and
we had the audiologist
this is our deaf library if the students
come to borrow books and read and then
bring the books back
this is settled Jim we have our Hopi
classes we have basketball games you and
we have a lot of
this is Kerry white we have a lot of
things happen in this building we have
the EOC which is bind pre-kindergarten
we have blind elementary we have blind
middle school and we have blind middle
school dorms and last but not least we
have the blind library this is the blind
library they have Braille books and they
have audio books some can't read so they
use audio right here behind me we have
the blind elementary school over here we
have the artist beautiful but behind
that we have the line
this is Brian hall it is blind high
school they have many types of devices
here for accessibility they have Braille
they have audio devices they have
embossing which changes normal print to
Braille and the blind has asked us here
this is the Music Building but you know
way back when we had two famous
musicians come here
Ray Charles you know famous pianist we
had Marcus Roberts famous jazz singer
they both came to the school here is
mcclain hall it is the middle school
deaf boys dorm and all the other
buildings on campus that our dorm does
you
this is you FINA field we have football
we have track we have flag football and
soccer and a lot of other activities
happen here when we were adding to this
field long ago they just kept adding
adding every morning and adding adding
every what one day a crane just fell and
they were searching they found it in the
middle of the field
there was a sinkhole and they just they
couldn't dig it out - they just left it
and just went over it the gold ball is a
famous blind sport here we have 11
national girls championship and eight
national boys championship many of the
players here actually moved on to become
Paralympian for gold walk this is the
Florida School for the Deaf my museum we
have a lot of history here from 1885 we
have deaf history we have black history
and we have blind history all in one all
together we have athletic we have
academics we have after school
graduation everything is here this is
the man who set it up in 1885 Coleman
he's deaf he graduated from Gallaudet
and he set up
you
here behind me we have the dragon's lair
students are able to cook here and then
sell it to teachers and other students
at night this is Kirk Auditorium a lot
of events happen here but it's mainly
for dance troupe right now they're
working on a play called hairspray jr.
you want to see it let's go
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right behind me we got the police
service building what is it for
we all we have a police offer here as it
works every day every year he's right
the police department here we serve the
community we protect the Deaf the blind
and the staff it is my favorite job they
are my people they are my kids they are
my family I enjoy my job here as a
police officer thank you so much for
your service here hello
I'm really glad that you came I hope you
enjoyed your tour I'm dr. Jimmy Prickett
president of FSDB I'm really happy that
you decided to come tour FSDB I hope you
will come again sometime and thank you
you