| Description | Track 1: recording setup 0.28 mins
Interview with Freddie Tooze, superintendent at Royal Sheffield School for the Blind, and his wife. They talk about encouraging children to move from sheltered play to recreational activities in Sheffield, including skating and swimming, mixing with sighted children, and their view that the children associate these integrated activities with being at junior school at Sheffield. Fredie Tooze talks about his aim to get the children to feel that they are normal by taking part in activities in the sighted world, the curiosity of local sighted children about the Sheffield blind school's adventure playground, the necessity for parents of blind children to treat them as normal and not to adopt an over-dramatic attitude towards their education and development (tracks 2-4)
Track 5: discussion with several children at Sheffield about Charles Parker's tape recorder and sound effects of children playing 1.44 mins
Track 6: Interview with unidentified man who talks about playing games in the street as a child 0.22 mins
Track 7: sound effects of people walking down school corridors and a discussion with a child who talks about singing 1.52 mins
Track 8: discussion with several children at Sheffield about the functions of Charles Parker's tape recorder 4.40 mins
Track 9: Charles Parker explains to several children at Sheffield about how his tape recorder works 0.29 mins
Track 10: sound effects of children at Sheffield having a lesson 1.48 mins
Interview with some of the mothers of children at the Royal Sheffield School for the Blind including Mrs Hitchin from Cudworth, and Mrs Hepworth from Pontefract. They talk about the lack of support and conflicting advice they received about the options for their children's education, how their own attitudes towards blindness changed since having their children and their views about the assumptions that other sighted people make about their abilities. They think that their children do not want sympathy, but independence and talk about their hopes for their children's futures and their employment opportunities. Mrs Hitchin thinks that her daughter is getting a good education at Sheffield (tracks 11-15).
Total: 33.09 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0730980 |