Re: Schools for the blind, training centers, and how they perform.
No Turtlepower, as far as I know there aren't any centers that run months long courses living together the way the nfb do, the longest course might be a week and would usually be run from another building such as an outdoor activity center. Likewise, there isn't a devide between "state run" and "charity or organization" because things in Britain just work differently. In Britain the government palms a lot of it's services off to charity organizations which are effectively businesses that recieve tax exemption status and charitable donations. The most prominant of these is the Rnib, but others exist such as Guide dogs (who provide other things than Guide dogs), Action for blind people, and every county locally has it's own society for the blind.
What gets provided and how good each person is depends largely on where in the country you are, and whom you apply to, and usually involves individual lessons with one person, or at most classe s run from a centralized location with several people.
Philosophy wise, as I said the Rnib in general do have a less than good attitude, especially surrounding institutionalisation and age, which is one reason it's often a little bad for newly blind people to get referd to them, even this varies according to department and individual however.
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