Utah School for the Deaf and Blind Boys Dormitory Ogden Utah

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that educates blind and deaf children. It includes a boarding and day school in Ogden, which has the USDB headquarters, and sites in

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and Springville.

Campuses

The Ogden campus has the Kenneth Burdett School for the Deaf and a School for the Blind, with about 50 students total. The USBD main administrative offices are in the Ogden campus. This campus has dormitories; the USDB states they can house "A very limited number of students". In the 1980s, in addition to the boarders at the deaf school, some students stayed with host families. The Jean Massieu School of the Deaf in

integrated into the USDB after being founded as a

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in 1999. The Elizabeth DeLong School of the Springville Campus is in Springville. It construction begin in March 2019 with completion expected for January 2020. Jacoby Architects designed the school, which had a cost of $13 million.

Transportation

In 1997 USDB gave a contract to Wasatch Transportation for school transportation services, leading to a protest from Quality Busing, a company which was not awarded the contract.
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References

External links

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