| Description | Track 1: tape test 0.31 mins
Interview with Miss Crawshaw from Bolton, matron at Chorley Wood grammar school for blind girls, Hertfordshire. She talks about her work in nursing and her feelings about coming to work at Chorley Wood. She discusses her first impressions of the building, the atmosphere, and meeting the girls. She remembers them being intolerant and defensively agressive. Miss McHugh, a teacher at Chorley Wood, joins the conversation. She thinks that their intolerance is due to their insecurity about their relationship with the rest of the world and is an automatic reaction to their disability. She thinks it also comes from living in the small world of blind children. Miss Crawshaw thinks that intolerance stems from unconcious feelings of guilt transferred to blind children from their parents. She discusses the greater depth of understanding of the teenage girls she looks after, and thinks this is due to their having suffered in life. Miss McHugh thinks that the girls seem to have more sympathy with problems and has noticed greater interest in issues brought up in Scripture lessons. She talks about the way that the acoustics of classrooms affect teaching and other activities, and her view that the girls benefit from learning to adjust to different conditions. Miss McHugh discusses the need for greater technological advances to help with the education of blind and partially sighted children, the shortage of talking books and other electronic equipment, delays in the production of talking books, shortages of transcribers, and the lack of choice in what is transcribed (tracks 1-9).
Total: 32.54 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0764580 |