| Description | Track 1: sound effects of children in changing room and using wall bars in a gymnastics class 4.04 mins
Interview with Freddie Tooze, superintendent at Royal Sheffield School for the Blind. He talks about the ways that blind children play together in the gymnasium and points out some of the children who have different degrees of sight. He goes on to discuss the children's levels of mobility when they leave the school and their lack of opportunity for development after that time. He talks about the mobility training children have in the use of the long cane, taking children out on activity weekends and ice skating, the consciousness that the children have of each other's bodies, the use of unisex changing rooms, and their familiarity with sexual differences without erotic overtones. He considers other ways of educating children about sexual differences, which he thinks are more likely to disturb them (tracks 1-5).
Interview with several children at Sheffield School for the Blind, including Dale Cooper from Chesterfield, Sheila Walker from Pontefract, Judith Baldwin from Rotherham, Glynis Wagstaff from Sheffield, Ruth Hepworth from Pontefract, Carol Butler from Chesterfield and Janet Brown from Knottingley. They discuss the activities they like taking part in at the gymnasium and at playgroup and playing in the streets with sighted children at home. Ruth Hepworth talks about her opinions of school, getting bored when she cannot go outside, and enjoying roller skating. She discusses her career ambitions, her parents jobs, losing her sight as a young child and how she recognises her friends by their voices and shapes. Carol Butler talks about her ambition to be a typist and the lessons she enjoys at school. Janet Brown talks about her enjoyment of reading and writing, reading braille and writing on braille. The other children join the conversation to talk about the things they like about learning braille (tracks 6-10).
Total: 32.20 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0731080 |