Matthew Layton presents Studio 1 – Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life in Australia from a low vision and blind point of view.
This week’s show is about the way that people living with blindness and low vision find their way around.
It’s something you can actually study - a discipline - Orientation and Mobility.
But like many acquired skills, if you don’t keep using them or practising, they can go a little rusty.
Both of our guests on the last two episodes of Studio 1 - Paula Nettley of Great Ormond Street in London and Emma Bennison, CEO of Blind Citizens Australia, both formidable professionals, super mums and all-round fine examples of the human species - have expressed a little apprehension about returning to the hurly burly of everyday life after extended periods in their domestic comfort zones.
(You can listen to both shows as podcasts here - https://varstudio1.podbean.com/)
So this week Matthew speaks to Vision Australia Orientation and Mobility Specialist Kirsty Jackson about what she and her colleagues do in general and, specifically, to see if they have any tips about how people can prepare to get back into the swing of things after lockdown.
And we have our usual scheduled appointment with Studio 1’s Mental Health and Safety Manager, registered counsellor Tammey Candeloro
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GUESTS AND RESOURCES
Kirsty Jackson, Orientation and Mobility Specialist, Vision Australia.
More information on Orientation and Mobility in general and Vision Australia’s Orientation and Mobility services can be found here - https://www.visionaustralia.org/community/news/2019-08-23/what-orientation-and-mobility
Tammy Candeloro - Counselling 4 You WA https://www.counselling4youwa.com.au/ - 0423 93 15 74
[PHOTO CAPTION: Coming out of lockdown. A gentleman with a long cane navigates his way out of the front doors of a bus.]
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