| Description | Interview with Mr Wilson, Ministry of Labour, London. He discusses collaborative work with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind)and St Dunstans in the development of methods for delivering written information to blind people through recordings, experimentation with compressed recordings and computer programming. He talks about training courses in computer programming undertaken by civil servants in collaboration with the RNIB, his own loss of sight, differences in the methods of visual and oral thinking, and teaching people who have lost their sight to interpret cues using different senses. He talks about different approaches taken in educating children who have been born blind, answers Charles Parker's questions about whether opportunities are much more limited for girls and talks about the pre-vocational training centres at Harborne and Hethersett which bridge the gap between schools and the world of employment (tracks 1-3).
Total: 18.39 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0966080 |