| Description | Interview with unidentified men and women, including Derek de Vote, who have been trained in the instruction of long cane techniques by Lee Farmer at Torquay. They continue to discuss their work in blind welfare.
They talk about the development of certain mannerisms in movement by people who have been born blind and attempts to change these and restore posture through mobility training. They give their opinions about the aptitude of students depending on age and level of activity, and discuss some of the typical conditions of visual impairment in youth, middle age, and old age. They talk about the time taken to teach mobility skills, describe some of the orientation techniques used in the training programme for use of the long cane and the need to convince their superiors of the need for students to undertake lengthy courses. They emphasise the importance of individual tuition in the long cane, their new feelings of confidence in being able to teach mobility skills to people with visual impairments and the realisation that they have become more observant of changes in their own local journeys (tracks 1-10).
Total: 33.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0067080 |