| Description | Interview with Lee Farmer from Chicago, United States of America, instructor on a training programme for orientation and mobility instructors. He talks about the benefits of a formalised approach to mobility and orientation and teaching decision making using information transmitted from the tip of the long cane, and describes some of the decision making exercises that are used to solve problems that arise when people are navigating their way around the streets. He talks about the respects in which blind welfare work and attitudes towards the employment of blind people in the United States of America are ahead of Britain
Track 5: recording setup 0.08 mins
Track 6: sound effects of voices and conversations as people are getting ready to leave the centre at Torquay 3.19 mins
Track 7: sound effects of street noise, car sounds 0.52 mins
Interview with Sheila Wilson, warden at the pre-vocational training centre at Torquay. She talks about the numbers of people who leave the centre each week and the emotional effects. She discusses the rewards she gets from the job, talks about her previous work in a hospital, and discusses her first impressions of blindness when she arrived at the centre. She describes the pyschological effects of blindness on many of the people who come to the centre because of the strain they are under in having to learn new skills and the effects their condition has on their relationships with other people. She emphasises the need to treat blind people as equals and the need for touch in human society (tracks 8-9).
Track 10: sound effects of voices and conversations amongst some of the staff at the centre at Torquay 0.58 mins.
Track 11: Interview with Marilyn Tapper from Poole, a student at the centre at Torquay. She talks about the ways people react to her, how she feels about the way that sighted people speak to her, her feelings of loneliness when she is alone and her ability to laugh when things go wrong in her mobility training 3.54 mins
Track 12: sound effects of people on the mobility training course walking with canes 2.36 mins
Track 13: sound effects of preparations being made to begin a mobility training course walking outside 2.10 mins
Track 14: sound effects of people on the mobility training course walking with canes and birdsong 1.39 mins
Track 15: silence 1.27 mins
Total: 37.16 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0062480 |