| Description | Mr Clarke, a teacher in Harborne, Birmingham, talks about his experiences of leisure activities including reading and music and describes losing his sight shortly after birth and his awareness of being blind. He describes how he feels about his blindness and his life as a professional musician and music teacher for other blind people. He discusses his greater awareness of different sounds than sighted people and talks about his feelings about being sent away to school and adapting himself to the school environment. He explains why he wears frosted glasses and talks about wanting to be able to read newspapers and browse through books in a library, and the lack of reading material in braille. He talks about his sense of dependence on others and the difficulties in coming to terms with this (tracks 1-4)
Charles Parker is given a brief tour of the school at Harborne by a partially sighted student
Miss Henderson, a teacher in Harborne, Birmingham, discusses the teaching of braille, typing and other skills and talks about different perceptions of blindness and being partially sighted and the diversity of experience and outlook amongst people who have always been blind and those who have lost their sight later in life. She gives her views about the education of blind people in institutions and the idea of integrating blind people within sighted schools (tracks 5-7)
Total: 18.29 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0967980 |