Sokolianskyi Ivan Panasovych

1889 – 1960

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Ivan Panasovych Sokolianskyi (1889 – 1960) was a Ukrainian scientist, pedagogue, paedologist, Professor, specialist in special needs pedagogy, one of the organisers of research institutes of pedagogy and defectology in the Ukrainian SSR, representative of the Kharkiv school of paedology, head teacher of the Zahorsk special boarding school for blind deaf-mute children, initiator of the unique methods of blind deaf-mute education, designer of the reading machine for the blind, author of works on deaf education and education for the blind, and the USSR State prize-winner in the field of science and engineering (1980, posthumously).