| Description | Track 1: recorded in error 0.20 mins
Interview with Lee Farmer from Chicago, United States of America, instructor on a training programme for orientation and mobility instructors. He talks about his education and career in physical education and corrective therapy with war veterans, and describes the new skills and techniques required to become a mobility therapist. He talks about the development of a methodology in the United States to help blind people achieve independence through teaching on an individual basis and the differences between the American and British approach. He discusses the analogy between racism and discrimination against people with disabilities, whether he has experienced less racial discrimination from blind people and the ways he deals with prejudice. He talks about his reasons for working in the field of mobility training (tracks 2-5).
Interview with Derek de Vote, RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) training officer. He talks about what led him to become involved in his current job, focusing on training people in the use of the long cane and other orientation and mobility skills. He discusses the process of mastering the techniques, as a sighted person, and how his experiences have changed his understanding of the problems faced by blind people. He talks about his visit to Russia to study organisations set up for the employment of people with visual impairments and other disabilities (tracks 6-7).
Total: 18.17 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0063080 |