| Description | Recording setup (track 1)
Interview with Diane Saxton from Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts, a student at Harborne. She talks about the loss of some of her sight she she was a child and explains how much she can see. She discusses her education and attending Lickey Grange and expresses her feelings about her time there and the lack of freedom. She describes how she feels helping other students who are blind as opposed to partially sighted, and discusses how her problems in reading and writing have held her back. She talks about the attitudes of other children towards her after losing some of her sight through a blow to the head, how her mother was persuaded to send her to a blind school, and her initial excitement about going away to school. She explains how well she can see her friends faces, advertisement hoardings and cinema and television screens, talks about the reaction of her friends at home to her disability, and expresses her desire to be allowed to be more independent. She talks about her plans to become a children's nurse, her concerns that this might not be possible because of her condition, and her resentment at not being given a clear answer about her future plans (tracks 1-7).
Total: 16.59 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0776680 |