| Description | Interview with Mr W. Cunliffe, director of the RNIB Vocational Guidance Centre for Blind Adolescents at Hethersett, Surrey. He continues to talk about the importance of teaching students social adjustment methods to equip them to tackle vocational training courses and to be successful in employment. He discusses the need for his students to become integrated into sighted society, his career as a teacher in schools for both sighted and blind children, his belief that education should be mixed and the rules against intimate relationships amongst students. He talks about the importance of teaching mobility and orientation skills, the standards required from students and emphasises the importance of mobility skills in developing independence. He makes distinctions between people who are totally blind and people who are partially sighted, and thinks that partially sighted people worry more about how they are viewed by the sighted world. He discusses the success rates in placing students in different types of employment, and the high percentage of students that go into industrial work. He thinks the system makes the best of a situation where blind people find it difficult to live an independent life, discusses the need to make greater use of technology, the improvements that might be possible if firms had to employ a quota of blind people, and the isolation associated with blindness (tracks 1-9).
Total: 35.20 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0401680 |