| Description | Interviews with teachers and students at Chorley Wood grammar school for blind girls, Hertfordshire.
Miss McHugh, headmistress at Chorley Wood, discusses the provision of tape recordings of educational resources, and her belief that this will become more widespread in schools, the different techniques of members of staff in the teaching of blind students, comparisons between teaching blind and sighted children and the relative absence of 'blindisms' or mannerisms developed by blind children, at the school. She discusses the good relationships between students and staff, the policy of not segregating academic and social activities and not focusing on the disability of the students. She talks about the attitudes of sighted society to blindness and the problems faced by the parents of blind children, regardless of social background, and discusses the tendency in society for the superficial and her greater appreciation for the characteristics and experience of people (tracks 1-6).
Track 7: sound effects of a piano being practised 1.18 mins
Track 8: sound effects of students reading lines from a play 2.34 mins
Track 9: sound effects of students reading lines from a play 1.20 mins
Gina Rimmer from Liverpool discusses her hopes that the programme will challenge the perception of the general public that blind people are stupid and talks about her experiences of being treated in this way. She talks about her education and the extent of her vision, and describes her perceptions of rooms and objects. She talks about learning the piano, her concept of the keyboard and music stand, her feeling of release when playing, and describes how she learns the music she plays. She talks about music she likes and her interest in pop music. She discusses some of the ideas in pop lyrics, which she thinks are silly and what she thinks about different pieces of music (tracks 10-13)
Total: 35.40 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0998080 |