Manillaskolan, before 1879 Allmänna institutet för döva och blinda å Manilla, is a Swedish state school for blind, deaf and hard of hearing children, founded by Pär Aron Borg in 1809. Until the autumn term 2013, the school was located at Djurgårdsvägen on Södra Djurgården in Stockholm. The school is now located in the former premises of the Stockholm Institute of Education in Konradsberg on Kungsholmen.
Manillaskolan
Founder Pär Aron Borg.
Manillaskolan before renovation, 1900.
Manillaskolan from the east, 2011.
Carl Oscar Malm, also known as C. O. Malm and Carl Oskar Malm was Finland's first teacher of the deaf, founder of the first school for the deaf in the country, and the father of Finnish Sign Language.
Illustration of Carl Oscar Malm, 1864