| Description | Sound effects of unidentified man giving another man orientation guidance through some of the rooms at the pre-vocational training clinic at Torquay, and helping him to walk with a stick or cane outside, with the man talking about his experiences learning to navigate outside (track 1).
Charles Parker interviews staff instructing people in the use of the long cane at Torquay and a man called Victor Horsley who has learnt confidence and mobility by using the long cane (track 2).
People at the clinic, including Miss Price, talk the daily routine and the classes and exercises taught to enable people to use touch to help them carry out various tasks (tracks 3-4).
Interview with Mr Boden from Castlewellan Co Down and Miss Pitman, taking training courses at the clinic. Miss Pitman talks about her problems with mobility and the sense of freedom she has gained, her sense of orientation. Mr Boden talks about losing his sight in an accident, the job he did at a cotton mill before this, and his instruction in the use of the long cane. He describes how difficult it was to use at the beginning and both talk about their feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment when noticed with a white stick by sighted people who are ignorant of experiences of blindness. Miss Pitman talks about her views of blindness before she lost her sight, experiencing people asking other people about her needs or whispering at her, laughing at sighted people. Mr Boden talks about his feelings after losing his sight, his time in hospital and the reasons he wears tinted glasses. Miss Pitman talks about sighted people being one of the problems for blind people (tracks 5-11).
Interview with a man who explains what instructions and guidance is given when people arrive at the clinic, how the initial assessments are carried out, and how team work activities are structured (track 12).
Total: 34.04 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0397180 |