Re: Regarding Lack of Formal Independent Outdoor Travel Training
Interesting Camorn, especially about the blind campas idea, though as I've said I'm not a huge fan of specialist schools generally, indeed the "independence" training I supposedly recieved at the school i went to was a joke, particularly because it mostly involved them telling me that all the things my mum had previously! taught me to do were wrong because I didn't do it the way they said to. Since I was only ten at the time living on my own was never mentioned, but I do think there was some sort of expectation that students there wouldn't.
Over hear indipendence training tends to be the counsel's responsability, but equally charities like action for blind people and guide dogs exist who provide more specialist stuff, ---- particularly if the counsel is useless, though those can vary according to attitude and according to the individual person involved.
One worrying thing about schooling is while specialist schools are less common fo r visual imparements, (too much money for counsels to go on sending blind kids out of county to them), a recent more worrying method is basically to furnish every blind child a full time specialist support worker who walks around the school with them, sits in lessons and behaves like their personal prison warder.
Needless to say, this doesn't make either for great social arrangements or for particularly good learning of independent skills such as getting around on your own.
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