| Description | Track 1: Lee Farmer from Chicago, United States of America, instructor on a training programme for orientation and mobility instructors gives his final speech to his students, thanking them for their hard work on the training course, and congratulating them on the results their students have achieved. He urges them not to allow themselves to be pressured into giving abbreviated courses and to teach by good example
Track 2: sound effects of voices, conversation 1.29 mins
Track 3: Philip Donnellan sets up filming 0.33 mins
Charles Parker interviews Tom Drake, director of the pre-vocational training centre at Torquay. He praises the long cane mobility techniques developed in America and taught at the centre for the ways it gives people more confidence. He discusses difficulties for blind people as a minority group to integrate into sighted society, feelings of being inferior, the importance of being accepted as normal and sighted people's uncertainty in knowing how to communicate with blind people. He talks about the need for blind people to be occupied usefully, within the home and at work, his assessment of the training and education opportunities available to people with visual impairments and his hopes for the future (tracks 4-5).
Track 6: sound effects of voices, conversation and people walking with canes 1.25 mins
Tom Drake, director of the pre-vocational training centre at Torquay continues to talk about the association between the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) centre at Torquay and the Ministry of Labour, efforts to place blind people in suitable employment, old views about blind people having to stay inside and do 'safe' work and the reluctance of some students to be employed in a workshop. He thinks that there is room for more technological developments to assist blind people, and talks about the development of tools like the braille micrometer. He discusses the need for people to make psychological adjustments to their condition and to learn new skills (tracks 7-10).
Track 11: silence 1.23 mins
Track 12: silence 0.20 mins
Track 13: tape noise 15.55 mins
Track 14: silence 1.22 mins
Track 15: tape noise 5.10 mins
Total: 47.14 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0062880 |